Gods of Soft Counsel

“Our culture swarms with little gods, like the frogs of Egypt. But the gods of Egypt do have the advantage of being relatively easy to identify. They are gods of antithesis. The gods of synthesis, the gods of gray and off-white, the gods which sidle up next to you in order to whisper devotional encouragements to you, are something else. These lords of compromise, these gods of soft counsel, are dangerous. Because of them the modern church is languishing, and the church is languishing because the households in Israel must tear down some idols” (Future Men, pp. 166-167).