Seduced or Persecuted?

I was sitting yesterday with Kyle, our student pastor at Heritage Park, when he started reading from this commentary on 1 Thessalonians.  He's preaching through that letter to our students so he had borrowed my commentary on the text.  This is a slight paraphrase of what he read:

Christians in America are more likely to be seduced by the cultural values than be persecuted by them.

Prophetic.  Powerful.

But that's just me thinking thoughts...