Two key words that grab my attention in this quote are "superficial" and "Conservative." Evidently there are many who have a surface relationship with God and who are more cultural Adventists than true followers of Jesus. Every day I pay that my experience will go deeper than that. Without God's grace and forgiveness, I am one of those.

Elsewhere Ellen White talks about leaders in the church who are afraid to venture out and try new things. They are perfectly content to continue in the ministry paths they know and are comfortable with. In this sense they are conservative!

In business, White said, “Men will invest in patent rights and meet with heavy losses, and it is taken as a matter of course. But in the work and cause of God, men are afraid to venture.”  (Evangelism, p. 62-63)

Whether it be WO or other cutting edge ventures in outreach, it currently appears that our greatest opposition is from within our own ranks.