Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. (Matthew 7:13, NIV)
We like to go with the majority. It feels so much more comfortable and secure. But as the famous American politician William Jennings Bryan once said, “Never be afraid to stand with the minority which is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority : always be afraid to stand with the majority which is wrong, for the majority which is wrong will one day be the minority.”
By becoming a Christian you are making a break with the world and with the vast majority of people. The true Christian way of life is not popular. It never has been popular, and it is not popular today. On the other hand, crowding through the wide gate and travelling along the broad way is the thing that everybody else seems to be doing. You must deliberately get out of that crowd and start making your way towards this narrow gate, alone. You cannot take the crowd with you into the Christian life: it inevitably involves a break.
"There’s a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again—it leads straight to hell. " (Proverbs 14:12, The Message)
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