James was quite pointed in his warning, “Keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” (James 1:27) Or as it tells us in I John 2:15, “Don’t love the world or anything in the world.” But it’s so easy to do. We all have a fondness for the newest things…and the Church isn’t any different. But at what expense? The present world-view is man-centered, materialism, focused on power, ambition, and self-glory…while God’s view for His Church is totally opposite. So we as the Body of Christ – the Church – need to be ever vigilant and constantly asking the question, “Is this new thing the Church is doing man-centered or God centered? For as Jesus told His disciples in John 15:19, “You don’t belong to the world, I have chosen you out of the world.”
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