{
  "title": "Respectability Before Elites Treated As Wisdom",
  "slug": "respectability-before-elites-treated-as-wisdom",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/respectability-before-elites-treated-as-wisdom/",
  "category": "Public Witness and Culture",
  "severity": 3,
  "severity_label": "Level 3 - Serious doctrinal or moral error",
  "summary": "Respectability is not the same as wisdom. The church becomes compromised when elite approval determines which biblical truths are spoken plainly.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "John 12:42-43",
    "1 Cor 1:18-31",
    "Gal 1:10",
    "Jas 2:1-7",
    "Heb 13:13"
  ],
  "key_terms": "doxa [glory, honour]; sophia [wisdom]; prosopolepsia [partiality]; reproach [shame borne for Christ]",
  "related_topics": [
    "fear-of-being-called-political",
    "cultural-accommodation-renamed-contextualization",
    "appeasing-pastors-of-civil-authorities-and-the-woke",
    "not-talk-about-politics"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}