Growing up I knew what worldliness was. I saw people who smoked and drank, who used bad language, who played cards and so on. It was even easier on Sunday. They were the people who stayed home from church and worked on their yards or their farm or their car or played sports but ignored church. We were not worldly as we honoured the Lord's day.
Now they can be the marks of worldliness but that is not worldliness. Worldliness has to do with having a world view that is not based upon the Bible. People can follow all the rules and still be worldly. David Wells says, "Worldliness is that system of values and beliefs, behaviours and expectations, in any given culture that have at their centre the fallen human being and that relegate to their periphery any thought about God. Worldliness is what makes sin look normal in any age and righteousness seem odd."
We desperately need to regain a God-centred view of our own lives, in which what we do is measured by what God has done and will do in and through Christ.
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