Seeing it clearly–R.J. Rushdoony
R.J. Rushdoony wrote, “Respectability is the mark of a dying church which will not risk unpopular stances, no matter how godly they are.”
What? Respectability is bad? Look and see:
https://chalcedon.edu/blog/respectable-christianity
He wrote this in 1994. It was true then, it was true in Christ’s own time, and it’s true now. There are always churches that go along to get along; and there are always saints who are mocked and criticized, or worse, for taking the Bible seriously. Our Lord Himself was crucified by the respectable religious establishment of His day.
“God does not exist to serve us, but we, Him.” And sometimes that means taking and holding an unpopular stance.
Thanks be to God, we have never quite run out of Christians who will do that.