Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(Php 2:14) “Do all things without murmurings and disputings: (15)  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”  When God’s people allow Christ to live through them, they stand out from the world as truly different, as different as light from darkness. Sad that we seem to desire to be “like” the world rather than different from it! We even desire our church’s services to be “like the world”. Yes, we may attract the lost, but in doing so have we said to them they don’t have to be “light” – different? Really, the question in this case becomes, why are we having the service? If it is to truly worship the Lord, then we must be different from the world. If it is to entertain the lost and our flesh, then we will be like the world. No, we cannot have both: (1Jn_2:15)  “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”