Are you Fashionable or Not?
I’m not even three pages into reading “Unfashionable by Tchividjian” and already love it. He starts by quoting Charles Spurgeon.
“The great guide of the world is fashion and its god respectability — two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around on society to know what to do? You watch the general current and then float upon it! You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men and women do not so! You ask, “is it fashionable? If it is fashionable, it must be done.” Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the consent of fools.” – Charles Spurgeon
Well that intro got my attention. Tchividjian then starts his first chapter by listing a top ten, Letterman spoof to start his book with some fun.
You May Be To Fashionable If…
10. You can look around church and notice that everybody is basically the same age as you are, and they look and dress pretty much like you do.
9. You think it’s very uncool to sing a worship song that was “in” years ago – much less sing a hymn
8. It’s been a long time since you disagreed with Oprah
7. You’ve attended a leadership conference where you learned more about organization and props vs. proclamation and prayer.
6. Your goal in spending time with non-Christians is to demonstrate that you’re really not so different than they are.
5. You’ve concluded that pretty much everything that is new is better than that what is old or that everything old is better than everything new.
4. You think the way Jesus lived is more important than what He said. — His deeds are more important than His doctrine.
3. You believe the best way to change culture is by electing the “right” politician.
2. The church you’ve chosen is defined more by its reaction to “boring traditional” churches than its response to a needy world.
1. The one verse you most wish wasn’t in the Bible is John 14:6 where Jesus says, “No one come sto the Father except through me.” That’s way too close minded.
I realize these are somewhat funny and potentially extreme. yet, are they really that far off? Sadly, probably not. Spurgeons quote is one I should read every morning before I have time to start floating on the “wrong” current. What do you think of the top 10? I love it when books cause me to stop and think.
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