“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom. 12:2).
A clean cut from all old connections, companionships, social, political and religious, and a clear and Scriptural start on the road to heaven, in “the paths of righteousness,” along which the Lord Himself leads (Psa. 23:3), is the only way of real progress on the heavenly road.
And then to go straight forward, turning neither to the right nor the left but “going by the Book” all the day, and all the way, “following fully,” like Caleb of old, who would not and did not turn aside, not even when the majority were against him and threatened to stone him if he went on with God.