The church is to be faithful to the Lord and is not to give away by compromise any part of what she believes. We can neither minimize nor dismiss the problem faced by the Thyatiran church as having no concern for us or as being irrelevant to our situation. On the one hand, the Christian must not deny her faith. On the other hand, she must not deny her membership in society either. The cause of Christ is not served if Christians, like the Amish, appear as a group of old-fashioned people trying to retreat from the real world.
Christians live in the same world as their unbelieving neighbors and face the same problems.
But, they must find Christian solutions to these problems, solutions that do not compromise any part of what they believe. It is precisely here where lies the greatest threat to Christianity today. The biggest threat facing the church today is the spirit of Jezebel and the Nicolaitans. The biggest danger facing the church today is compromise. Don't forget, it was servants of God in Thyatira who were misled by Jezebel into compromising their faith.