Our viewpoint of God has become shamefully low. When we hear truth from God's Word, we are convicted but not changed; we are challenged but not converted. It naturally follows that an inferior view of God will birth a shallow view of His Word. Today, the Bible is not only being questioned and debated, but it is being disobeyed. Why? The fear of the Lord is no longer before our eyes. Christ has become an after-thought, rather than an all-consuming thought. Reverence for the things of God takes a back seat today in the public arena. The crowd who claim the name of Christ but float downstream in the current of popular culture find their lives swirling in the eddy of religious pluralism, inclusivism, and universalism— spiraling rapidly downward—moving farther and farther away from distinctiveness and purity. This crowd becomes the rule. You must choose to be . . . the exception.