Be Not Conformed

Be not conformed to the world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds that you might prove what is that good and acceptible and perfect will of God.

St Paul wrote this to the Romans. How applicable today for our own times. Of course Paul here is admonishing the Ekleisia in Rome. This is an enduring temptation for the Church to meld in with the culture. This is one of the reasons I respect the Mennonites who in dress, language, and scriptural identity resist conforming to the world. When I was in college the clarion call was "don't conform!" "Have the courage to be a non conformist!" Too bad we still don't heed this imperative. I wonder how such a Covid and Climate Change and Collusion conformity that we are witnessing this past year has ubiquitiously come about. It seems there is so little resistance especially in the Church today to the cultural construct. Could it be that we have traded our Bibles for the New York Times and Huffington Post?