WORLDLINESS-DEFINED
Worldliness
is not a matter of engaging in those practices that some question. It is
unthinkingly adopting the perspectives, values and attitudes of our culture,
without bringing them under the judgment of God’s Word. It is carrying on in
our lives as if we did not know Jesus.
Lawrence
O. Richards
Expository Dictionary of Bible Words,
Zondervan, www.zondervan.com,
1985, p. 639.
Worldliness
is a spirit, a temperament, an attitude of the soul. It is a life without high
callings, life devoid of lofty ideals. It is a gaze always horizontal and never
vertical.
John Henry Jowett
Pleasure,
profit, preferment are the worldling’s trinity.
John Trapp
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 310.
Worldliness
is any preoccupation with or interest in the temporal system of life that
places anything perishable before that which is eternal.
John MacArthur
Worldliness:
it involves love for earthly things, esteem for earthly values, and
preoccupation with earthly cares. Scripture plainly labels it sin – and sin of
the worst stripe. It is a spiritual form of adultery that sets one against God
Himself (James 4:4).
John MacArthur
No
Earthly Idea About Heaven taken from The Glory of
Heaven by John MacArthur, copyright 1996, Crossway Books, a division of Good
News Publishers, Wheaton Illinois, 60187, www.crosswaybooks.org,
page 48.
The world…is
characterized by the subtle and relentless pressure it brings to bear upon us
to conform to its values and practices. It creeps up on us little by little. What
was once unthinkable becomes thinkable, then doable, and finally acceptable to
society at large. Sin becomes respectable, and so Christians are no more than
five to ten years behind the world in embracing most sinful practices.
Jerry Bridges
The
Discipline of Grace, NavPress, 1994, p. 202-203.
[Worldliness
is] the mindset of the unregenerate.
Iain Murray
Worldliness
is what any particular culture does to make sin look normal and righteousness
look strange.
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