The culture may applaude as we fall, as we compromise. However, it is not all as it seems. It’s an applause of delight in our fall.
WE HAVE NOT REALLY GAINED THE SECULAR PEOPLE’S APPROVAL for where we are with Christ. No, they mostly just approve and applaude the downward direction in which we are heading, away from Him & His scriptures and revealed words. Don’t mistake that for any kind of acceptance for our new “enlightended” version of Christianity. It’s delight in the direction of “away” you are probably being patted on the back for!
COMPROMISE IS COSTLY
A. W. Tozer
“Christianity today is so entangled with this present world that millions never guess how radically they have missed the New Testament pattern. Compromise is everywhere-but actually no real union between the world and the Church is possible.
When the Church joins up with the world it is the true Church no longer but only a pitiful hybrid thing, an object of smiling contempt to the world, and an abomination to the Lord!
Nothing could be clearer than the pronouncements of the Scriptures on the Christian’s relation to the world. The confusion which gathers around this matter results from the unwillingness of professing Christians to take the Word of the Lord seriously. This whole thing is spiritual in its essence.
A Christian is what he is not by ecclesiastical manipulation but by the new birth.
He is a Christian because of a Spirit which dwells in him.
Only that which is born by the Spirit is spirit, no matter how many church dignitaries work on it!
Luke 6:26
Woe to you
when all people speak well of you,
for this is the way their ancestors
used to treat the false prophets.
The Invisible Humanitarian 