However, like many seminary students who are simply trying to get through their Greek and Hebrew classes in seminary so they may forget it all once they get a church, many recruits failed to remember these lessons in integrity and the intangibles once we had graduated from boot camp. Many men in my Marine Corps experience seemed to do away with these intangibles when it was convenient, useful or beneficial to them. Unfortunately the church has decided to play a similar game. Though, this is not done without some form of thinking things through. The church, like some men in the Marine Corps, has adopted a pragmatic world and life view, and thus become full-fledged pragmatists.
Truth is abandoned in favor of numbers and money or what works.
What works is then sprinkled with a little reformed doctrine around the edges to make it look pretty. They abandon truth when it is convenient, apparently useful or beneficial. Peter, in Acts Chapter 2, gave a sermon which should serve as a sufficient model for our purpose. In Acts 2, we find Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost. In it Peter preaches the law and the gospel.