And even when we choose the path of holiness, we live around people—even fellow believers—who indulge in and celebrate questionable or sinful practices. Perhaps you cower from saying anything. You would be frowned upon or ridiculed in our current culture for abstaining from the same banter or not going along with the crowd, much less speaking up that such behavior is not fit for a child of God. Such silence quietly condones the decline in values among Christians.