Casual Christianity Condemned!
Irreverence in life or worship, even while being orthodox in doctrine, is heterodoxy in practice and dishonoring to God. This indicts today's Bumper-sticker and T-Shirt Christianity that is marked by lip-service while the means and actions speak without gravity and reverence. And when the speaker rehearses the text about the Sabbath, "oh what a weariness it is" (as God mocks Israel's irreverent attitude), it reminds one of Sunday-Only Christianity--i.e. dress up then dress down as soon as church is over, the race to watch TV or sports, as if being a Christian, who ought to fear God always, is not 24/7, or as if reverence is only a show for church meetings, then afterwards God is not feared. This was the "hypocrisy" of Israel that God indicted them for--temporary pretense, preferring other things! Isn't that the kind of Christianity most of us were raised in, wrongly?
