The real danger

Thanks to The Thinklings for posting these thoughts from Raymond C. Ortlund Sr.:

Your danger and mine is not that we become criminals, but rather that we become respectable, decent, commonplace, mediocre Christians. The twentieth-century temptations that really sap our spiritual power are the television, banana cream pie, the easy chair and the credit card. The Christian wins or loses in those seemingly innocent little moments of decision.

The same is true for the twenty-first century too.