Today, the social and moral pressures in our pluralistic society threaten the Christian as never before! The temptations to “become like” the nonreligious persons around us can be terribly intimidating!
The temptations to adopt the value system of a secure society become a deadly serious form of insidious persecution. To my Christian reader: a warning! Compromise and abandon your principles and you will literally lose your soul; you’ll no longer be the person you were before. You will have lost your identity as a distinctive, independent person.
The temptations to adopt the value system of a secure society become a deadly serious form of insidious persecution. To my Christian reader: a warning! Compromise and abandon your principles and you will literally lose your soul; you’ll no longer be the person you were before. You will have lost your identity as a distinctive, independent person.
For when you give in, for fear of ridicule, to the pressure to be like everyone else, you’ll have allowed yourself to be absorbed in the total collective society. Run with the foxes, dash with the hounds, and become just another part of the mass of humanity. You will be a nothing! A no one! Yes, a non-individual! Only a blob absorbed in a mass!
For a little bit of you dies every time you surrender a cherished ideal, abandon a noble value, or discard a moral principle
For a little bit of you dies every time you surrender a cherished ideal, abandon a noble value, or discard a moral principle
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