Sin is never the better because it is in fashion, nor will this plea hold at the last day, that we did as the majority. God will say, seeing you sinned with the multitude, you shall go to Hell with the multitude. ~Thomas Watson, Religion Our True Interest, 4

Those who are eaten up with the world will be rejected, as ungodly, at the bar of judgment. To be godly and earthly is a contradiction: "For many walk, of whom I now tell you even weeping, that they are "the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things" (Phil. 3:18, 19). We read that the earth swallowed up Korah alive (Num. 16:32). This judgment is on many - the earth swallows up their time, thoughts and discourse. They are buried twice; their hearts are buried in the earth before their bodies. How sad it is that the soul, that princely thing, which is made for communion with God and angels, should be put to the mill to grind, and made a slave to the earth! How like the prodigal the soul has become, choosing rather to converse with swine and feed upon husks than to aspire after communion with the blessed Deity! Thus does Satan befool men, and keep them from heaven by making them seek a heaven here.  ~Thomas Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture

A Sober Word from Tozer

Aside from of the grosser sins, the sins of the unregenerate world are now approved by a shocking number of professedly "born-again" Christians, and copied eagerly.  Young Christians take as their models the rankest kind of worldlings and try to be as much like them as possible.  Religious leaders have adopted the techniques of the advertisers; boasting, baiting, and shameless exaggerating are now carried on as normal procedure in church work.  The moral climate is not that of the New Testament, but that of Hollywood and Broadway. 


Most evangelicals no longer initiate; they imitate, and the world is their model.  The holy faith of our fathers has in many places been made a form of entertainment, and the appalling thing is that all this has been fed down to the masses from the top.


That note of protest which began with the New Testament and which was always heard loudest when the Church was most powerful has been successfully silenced.  The radical element in the testimony and life that once made Christians hated by the world is missing from present-day evangelicalism.  Christians were once revolutionists--moral not political--but we have lost our revolutionary character.  It is no longer either dangerous or costly to be a Christian.  Grace has become not free, but cheap.  We are busy these days proving to the world that they can have all the benefits of the gospel without any inconvenience to their customary way of life.  It's "all this, and heaven too." ~A. W. Tozer 1897-1963, Keys to the Deeper Life