{
  "title": "Appeasing Pastors of Civil Authorities and the Woke",
  "slug": "appeasing-pastors-of-civil-authorities-and-the-woke",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/appeasing-pastors-of-civil-authorities-and-the-woke/",
  "category": "Public Witness and Culture",
  "severity": 3,
  "severity_label": "Level 3 - Serious doctrinal or moral error",
  "summary": "Lawful submission is biblical, but appeasement becomes sin when pastors mute Scripture to avoid civil, cultural, ideological, or institutional pressure.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Acts 4:19-20",
    "Acts 5:29",
    "Gal 1:10",
    "Prov 29:25",
    "Eph 5:11"
  ],
  "key_terms": "fear of man [treating human approval as controlling]; peitharcheo [obey as authority]; elencho [expose, reprove]; accommodation [adjusting truth to pressure]",
  "related_topics": [
    "fear-of-being-called-political",
    "neutrality-toward-public-evil",
    "not-talk-about-politics",
    "will-not-stand-with-persecuted-during-lockdowns"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}