“Tradition vs. Traditionalism”

The Conversation Continues

A friend asked me to explain what I said last week in “Remember Your Roots”:

 

Every group has strong preferences and valued customs. That’s normal. The key is not to let tradition become traditionalism.

Tradition: living faith of the dead.

Traditionalism: dead faith of the living.

Remember, Jesus told the Pharisees, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27, NIV).