What do I mean by “unfashionable gospel?”
I borrowed the phrase from Tullian Tchividjian’s book Unfashionable. In the foreword, he cites an old sermon by Charles Spurgeon (I suppose they’re all old) on Joshua 24:15. I went ahead and looked up the original sermon and loved the challenge. Here is what Tchividjian cites in his book’s foreword:
The great guide of the world is fashion and it’s 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.
—Charles H. Spurgeon, 1875
