Devote Yourselves To The Gospel Of Christ, Not Peripheral Issues

D. A. Carson writes:

"One observes the decline of family and personal devotions and the rising number of self-confessed evangelicals who assume the gospel but devote themselves to relatively peripheral issues that become their premier passion: debates over Lordship salvation, spiritual warfare, counseling, home schooling, divorce and remarriage, abortion, Christian schools, Gothard seminars, social drinking, debt-free financing, charismatic issues, tastes in music and corporate worship, sex education in public schools, church polity, church discipline, ecology, women’s ordination, and much more."

D. A. Carson, The Gagging Of God, Christianity Confronts Pluralism (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 482.