This morning I received a copy of Tullian Tchividjian's new book Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the world by being different. I've been looking forward to reading this one for several months, and it has endorsements from some men I highly respect.On the first page of the book, Tullian shares this quote from Charles Spurgeon:
The great guide of the world is fashion and its god is respectability -- two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around on society to know what to do? You watch the general current and then float upon it! You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not so! You ask, 'Is it fashionable? If it is fashionable, it must be done.' Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common consent of fools.
I think Spurgeon (and Tullian) is right. In our desire to be 'relevant' and 'culturally engaged,' we best not make an idol out of being fashionable.
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