There is a constant danger of the Christian’s yielding to the temptation to take on the coloring of his surroundings.
The desire to conform to the common standards about us constitutes a common weakness of the human family. Israel had great difficulty in throwing off the influence of the nations about her, and finally yielded to the desire to be like others, and as a result fell from the high and lofty place she once held. Israel is not the only people that has fallen by so doing. We, as individuals, and as faithful churches, are facing the same danger, that of yielding to the temptation to be like those about us.
The Christian is a peculiar person from the world’s standpoint—peculiar because he is different. He is different in his desires, in his objectives, in his ethics, in his ambitions and destiny. The very day we shrink from being different, that day our power evaporates.
--E. DeWeerd Lupton
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