Who You With?

James 4:4 "Ye  adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be friend of the world is the enemy of God". 

If accommodation and compromise continues to be the movement of the church, eventually the church will reach a point of friendship with the world. This is an extremely dangerous place for the believer. Like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot, he will have lost the ability to sense the heat slowly rising and is likely to slowly cook until almost all distinction from the culture is lost. This was precisely God’s point when He dealt with Israel in the Old Testament. God went to great lengths to separate Israel from the surrounding nations because He knew all too well the eventual destination of the path of incremental compromise and accommodation.

Today's congregations are in grave danger of friendship with this world. We have adopted so much of the worlds ways that its' music is now church music, its' dance is now being honored as praise dancing, and its' trinity seems to be the goal of many in the church today(prestige, prosperity, and position.). We have allowed the world to dictate how we are to love one another, as we are so fearful of being called judgmental that we let those Christ died to save, and we profess to love travel on the road to destruction instead of telling them they are going the wrong way. We have become more interested in what is in the collection plate than we are what is in the hearts of the people. Today’s user-friendly, seeker-oriented, market-driven church doesn’t preach much against worldliness. To do so might make unbelievers (not to mention many believers) uncomfortable, and is therefore avoided. It's much easier to justify our actions than to examine them in light of Scripture.

We have been called from among the world, not to be reunited to the world, but through the truth of our testimony the world might be reunited with God. For the word of God says God was reuniting the world back to Him through Jesus Christ. Let us saturate ourselves in God's Word and keep our focus on Christ that we might lead a lost world to the ways of the Lord instead of following the ways of this world.