 I've been studying the answer to this question for a number of years, and it boils down to this. Stamp it on your mind. Once the people of an organization or an institution start longing for the accolades of other people more than they do pleasing and fearing God, they will drift away from Christ as the anchor of their life. It's that simple. We must make a choice between being popular in this life or being proven right in the next. Guess what?