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How do we live in a world that is growing more wicked by the day?
How does the Christian stay distinct and separate from worldliness without isolating himself from unbelievers?
What is “the world”?
A kingdom ruled and empowered by Satan that consists of the unbelievers in our generation who show their ignorance of God and their opposition to God by the way they think and act.
—Randy Leedy
What do we learn about the term “world” for this text?
If the hates then what can we deduce about the world?
Speaking about people not merely a system.
What’s the difference?
What are the people of this world like?
Who are they following?
Why does the world hate Christians?
What do you think it means then to be in the world, but not of the world?
Can you have the approval of both the world and God?
Relating to the World
What is the big distinction that Paul makes in this text?
What does Paul tell us not to do?
We do not have permission to hate or avoid sinners.
Have we engaged in a form of soft monasticism?
We have been called to live on this earth among them, and we are to build redemptive relationships with them.
What should those relationships look like?
How much of a friend should we be with unbelievers?
What is the balanced approach we all need to implement?
Paradox #1: In, Not Of the World
What was Jesus’ prayer for His disciples?
Why do you think he prays this for them?
What does Jesus mean when he states that Christians are not “of this world”?
We are in the world in terms of location, but we are not of the world in terms of source.
Before we were saved, the world was our source.
We found our identity and value in its entertainment, education, recreation, and economics.
How do you see this in your own life?
What things still compete with your new identity in Christ?
What does that mean?
We can have a working relationship with it, but not a loving relationship with it.
So what should be the balanced approach for how we interact in the world?
What are some ways that Christians absorb the thinking or practices of the world?
What do you value?
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