Then there was no discussion of the relative value of faith and works. It was taken for granted that the child of God would exhibit both. If one member suffered all of the members suffered with him. Charity drives were not necessary because the persons whom you would solicit were already over where the emergency existed doing their best personally to help out. There have been great revolutions and upheavals in thought and behavior patterns.
Life is no longer simple but complex.
Existence is not a mere struggle for survival against the forces of nature in our affluent culture. And the result is seen in our contemporary worship habits. Housing projects and subdivisions now cover the land which a few short years ago was the haunt of rabbits and quail. Conformity is the rule in everything but the religious structures in suburbia. In these the architects allow their inventiveness to run wild and some of the results are bizarre and strange.