Faith has succumbed to fashion. Loyalty to Christ has been swallowed up in looseness of life. It is easier to belittle than to believe, to trust in luck than to trust in God. Our hope is not in the hereafter but in what we are after here. We estimate spiritual growth by the figures on a bulletin board.
Success is a matter of attendance and accounts.
It is not so much a statement of conviction as the statement from the bank which is of vital concern. True, it is safer to let down our nets closer to shore, but that which is safest may not be sanest, if the object is to catch fish. Faith involves a risk. There is a difference between being saved and playing it safe. The world got rid of many of them because they had already rid themselves of the world.