Deadly conformity

Jim Martin, reflecting on a book by Erwin Raphael McManus, considers how the church suffers when we move from radical to respectable:

Instead of being a tribe of renegades, we too often become conformists. For many of us, "forward" is not our word. For many of us, "conform" is our word. Think about how often this is played out among us:

Jim gives examples, and they're not pretty. Once again, Jim has written a post worth reading.