Sermon Illustrations: Worldliness

Anecdotes

"Do not be conformed..." Examples of this kind of conformity are everywhere. I remember looking into a fir tree. Suddenly, a part of it moved; it was a stick insect. The stick insect blends into its surroundings. If people can't tell the difference between you and the rest of your peers, you have blended in, you have conformed to the world.

Quotes

The church that marries the spirit of the age will be a widow in the next.

World in the New Testament usage is a sociological order established by man which rejects the righteous government of God over man and in particular rejects God's righteous governor the Lord Jesus Christ. So the world is a congregation of rebels. Derek Prince