One of the formative experiences of the earliest part of my Christian life was my exposure to Bill Gothard and the Institute of Basic Youth Conflicts. Each night for several nights we piled into the church bus (it was a Southern Baptist Church, after all) and off we went to watch Gothard appear, by video, in the Omaha Civic Auditorium. There were thousands present. There he was, bigger than life, with his overhead projector, his chalk talk, his charts, and his principles. It has been a very long time (this was about 1977) since I heard Gothard and what I did not understand then but what I know now is that Gothard was offering to save families from the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s not by offering to parents and children free salvation by grace alone, through faith alone but by law. Gothard was going to save the family by putting young people on a legal footing with God.