We are living in the greatest of church ages, though the most perilous. Keep in mind that the man who wrote that Biblical text lost his life for the gospel. He was in constant danger of torture, imprisonment, ridicule and anything else that we might acquaint with the radical Christians of Paul's day. Like the proverbial lobster, never suspecting that it would be his last swim is gently lowered into the pot of water, we fail to notice the rise in temperature (or, more appropriately, in our case, the drop in temperature; that is, from hot to lukewarm).