The people like you now.

It will only cause unpleasant feelings and do no good for you to launch out into a crusade against this thing right now.

There are so many of your members involved that it will certainly alienate their support, and possibly lead to your being compelled to lose your place as pastor, if it do not drive away the most influential members." To all this plea of expediency Philip replied, "Get thee behind me, Satan!" He said with himself, he might as well let the people know what he was at the very first.

It was not necessary that he should be their pastor, if they would none of him.

It was necessary that he preach the truth boldly.