Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

Stanley also served two one-year terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1984 to 1986. Stanley has an evangelical fundamentalistdispensationalist theology. Charles Frazier Stanley (born September 25 1932) is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church a megachurch in northern Atlanta Georgia.