Second, the sapping influences of self-indulgence throughout the Western world wield their power in the church. For many confessing Christians, it has become more important to be comfortable and secure than to be self-sacrificing and giving. Three dollars worth of gospel, please, but no more. Third, we are witnessing the rise of what some have called “philosophical pluralism.” Certainly many Western nations, including Britain and America, are more diverse, more empirically pluralistic, than they