Holding back or giving less than is required always produces divided loyalties. We need not have our membership records in the great and abominable church in order to be disloyal to the kingdom of God; the issue is not where our records are but rather where our hearts are....
Our hearts cannot be wedded to another endeavor. Our might or strength cannot be spent in secondary causes. Our minds cannot be committed to another enterprise. In the words of the early brethren of this dispensation, it must be the kingdom of God or nothing! (Millet, An Eye Single to the Glory of God, pp. 7, 9.)
“There neither are nor can be any neutrals in this war,” Elder Bruce R. McConkie taught. “Every member of the Church is on one side or the other.... In this war all who do not stand forth courageously and valiantly are by that fact alone aiding the cause of the enemy. ’They who are not for me are against me, saith our God.’ (2 Nephi 10:16.)
We are either for the Church or we are against it. We either take its part or we take the consequences. We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world. We must make the choice. It is either the Church or the world. There is no middle ground.” (CR, October 1974, p. 44.)