Great quote from John Piper in his forward to CJ Mahaney’s book- “Worldliness- Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World“.
“The gospel makes all the difference between whether you are merely conservative or whether you are conquering worldliness in the power of the Spirit for the glory of Christ.”
Mark Dever says “Worldliness is normally invisible to us, like water to a fish. That’s one of the reasons why it’s so dangerous to us.”
It is worth spending some time thinking about how you view worldliness and what John meant when he wrote- “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world- the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions- is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 2:15-17)
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