The subtle danger our churches face right now

What is one of the greatest dangers to the health of the church? There are so many legitimate dangers we can think of. Most of these revolve around different pressures from all ends of the political and societal spectrum to compromise on core Christian convictions. There are others as well. James’ epistle identifies several of them.

One is what we might call a dead faith—of a faith that bears no fruit (James 2:17).1 But another is one that we might not recognize, at least at first. It’s one...