Seth McBee highlighted a prevalent problem in Christianity in a recent post at Contend Earnestly recently.

He starts by quoting William Wilberforce:

My grand objection to the religious system still held by many who declare themselves orthodox Churchmen…is, that it tends to render Christianity so much a system of prohibitions rather than of privilege and hopes, and thus the injunction to rejoice, so strongly enforced in the New Testament, is practically neglected, and Religion is made to wear a forbidding and gloomy air and not one of peace and hope and joy. [emphasis added]

Then he goes on to cite a contemporary example where a prospective pastor when asked about “dancing in the aisles and other forms of worship” responds:

I don’t agree with it, I don’t know if I have a biblical reason for all things, but I am pretty sure that if I see something that I don’t agree with I will just know it.

Seth pares that response down to “if I don’t like it, it is wrong”. He then goes on to show why such a response is so troubling. I encourage you to check Seth’s article out.

So, if you don’t like something, is it wrong? Should you think others are wrong if they do like it?