DISCIPLE

1. Appeasement     To conciliate or pacify by making a sacrifice of a moral or spiritual principle.     * The world made this mistake with Hitler, then with Communist Russia, and so on.  Appeasement in the churches only allows the leaven of evil or rebellion the time it needs to put down roots, and spread and affect more people, making more difficult and painful the work of cleansing, discipline and correction that must inevitably be done anyway. Nothing is gained by appeasement, and in the long run more is lost. 2. Compromise     To come to an agreement by concession or consensus; yielding; or conceding.     * This includes such ideas as democracy, the will of the majority,  the principle of give and take, and respecting other people's moral preferences. Israel has not achieved peace with Arab nations by making concessions to them – land for peace. Compromise is not set forth in the Bible as a Scriptural pattern to...