Every church has such traditions that have become sacred cows.  In one church I pastored, the color of the carpet had become the sacred cow.  We had always had red carpet, but now the property committee was going to change it to blue.  Some people just weren't sure they could worship God on a BLUE CARPET, God forbid.

At another church, we had the Great Hymnbook Controversy of 1975.  For twenty years, the 1956 version of the hymnal had been used and cherished in that church, but …