Many Christians enjoy ducking those things of our culture which overtly violate Biblical values. For example, when a church begins ordaining homosexuals, many believers will confront the leadership and, when that fails to make a difference, vote with their feet (leave). Often, believers will avoid popular songs about cop-killing, suicide, and illicit drugs. They will occasionally boycott businesses advocating antibiblical values. All these responses from believers are indeed to be respected. However, these same believers too often overlook dangers far more sinister precisely because they are more subtle.

A church may not openly condone homosexual behavior, but they preach a kind of acceptance that denies sinfulness. A song may not be overtly promoting evil, but it may subtly imply an unbiblical worldview. A business may not contribute funds to ungodly "charities", but they may have internal policies discouraging Christian expression. These unbiblical values are much more subtle, but they can be more sinister as a result.

It's much more dangerous to the less spiritually mature to present an assumed, unspoken worldview than it is to "attack" more obviously. When one knows he is facing a spiritual attack, it can be rebuffed. When one does not recognize an attack, seeds may be quietly planted in his worldview, and over time, he may abandon Godly values without recognizing the tiny, ungodly decisions he made along the way. Children are especially susceptible to this kind of attack since their worldviews are still being formed. (Public schools occasionally use overt attacks, but the vast majority of the attacks against Christianity are very subtle, implicit, and unspoken--a very effective tactic against even Christian children.)

Pray for the [American] church today. Its members have little to no clue. They don't even identify their own worldviews properly, let alone recognize the subtle attacks of others. Children are sacrificed. The Word is denied. Or the Lord is relatively unknown. Pray for each other, that we may be convicted of such sins. Pray we may be used to preach truth, even to those in the church who don't know it. Pray for holiness, so the church may be set apart for the Lord alone, that we may withstand attacks both overt and subtle.