In the World Not of the World

This Wednesday evening our High School group will begin a summer study titled, "Half a poison pill won't kill you." The series is about how Christians are called by God to be in the world, but not to love the world. Worldliness plagues the church in our day and sadly plagues my life as well. My desire is to address this sin in my life and to hopefully be used by God to address it in the lives of our students as well. Here is a helpful quote on what worldliness is by a man I respect and have learned from:
“Worldliness is departing from God. It is a man-centered way of thinking; it proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man’s fallen nature; it judges the importance of things by the present and material results; it weighs success by numbers; it covets human esteem and wants no unpopularity; it knows no truth for which it is worth suffering; it declines to be a ‘fool for Christ’s sake’. Worldliness is the mind-set of the unregenerate. It adopts idols and is at war with God.” —Iain H. Murray Evangelicalism Divided
I hope this study will be particularly glorifying to God and that He, in His mercy, would address us in this area and truly transform our hearts and lives.