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Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World
Written by C.J. Mahaney
Narrated by Sean Runnette
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This resource uncovers the subtle presence of worldliness in our hearts and helps believers learn to relate to the world while resisting its influence.People today are saturated in technology and abundance. Most of us have access to endless luxuries: clothes to wear, cars to buy, vacations to take, entertainment to enjoy. Yet this world, which offers so many pleasures, is actively opposed to God and the truth of His Word. How, then, is the Christian to relate to the world in which we live?In Worldliness, C. J. Mahaney and fellow pastors wisely lead us to see the often subtle presence of worldliness in our hearts-the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions (1 John 2:16).Looking at the areas of media, music, modesty, and material possessions in particular, Worldliness explores how Christians are to live lives worthy of the gospel and engage a fallen world, without being conformed and ultimately seduced by the system of this world.
Author
C.J. Mahaney
C. J. Mahaney is the senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville. He has written, edited and contributed to numerous books, including Proclaiming a Cross-Centered Theology; Don't Waste Your Sports; and Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God. C. J. and his wife, Carolyn, are the parents of three married daughters and one son, and the happy grandparents to twelve grandchildren.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very balanced book dealing with our hearts and our love for the things of the world, especially around media, music, stuff and clothes. The final chapter is on the proper way to love the world. This is not a list of rules but rather a biblical viewpoint on how to evaluate your own choices. We read this as a morning devotion with our kids aged 8-18. Very Helpful!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Probably the most well rounded book with regards to the love of this world, that I have ever read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Any book entitled Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World promises not to be your average book on the shelf of today's Christian bookstore. The subject of worldliness, or love for the values of this fallen world, is not a popular theme.The contributors of this book, start off by asking if 1 John 2:15 ["Do not love the world or anything in the world":], is really in most Christian's Bibles. All of us are guilty of worldliness. But how do we go about avoiding this sin? C.J. Mahaney explains:Some people try to define worldliness as living outside a specific set of rules or conservative standards. If you listen to music with a certain beat, dress in fashionable clothes, watch movies with a certain rating...surely you must be worldly.Others, irritated and repulsed by rules that seem arbitrary, react to definitions of worldliness, assuming it's impossible to define. Or they think legalism will inevitably be the result, so we shouldn't even try....Both views are wrong. For by focusing exclusively on externals or dismissing the importance of externals, we've missed the point.... the real location of worldliness is internal. It resides in our hearts.The book goes on to try to navigate between these two extremes and call today's church to a healthy carefulness about how we interact with the world at large. With chapters on movies, music, money and modesty, the book aims to guide believers as they think critically about the myriad of choices facing us in today's culture.As one who came out of a very strict fundamentalist background, this book especially interested me. I was encouraged to see contemporary evangelical Christians warning about the social dangers that abound. And I noted that the book did not offer a list of rules which I should follow more closely than Scripture. Instead the authors were careful to encourage discernment and teach general guiding principles. To some the book will seem quite strict. Think "radical", instead. The authors aim to glorify God in everything they do. That will come across as totally radical, and will require a unique focus on the temptations and opportunities that surround us.While the discussion on media (movies) and music was quite good, the chapter on money and modesty wasn't quite as captivating for me. I'd heard a lot of Mahaney's stuff on modesty before, so maybe that's why. But any lull in those chapters was more than made up by Mahaney's opening chapter and the closing one by Jeff Purswell.That final chapter focused on how to love the world. We are to love God's creation and the people He has made. We are placed within His world and called to serve for its good. Perhaps since externals were over emphasized in my fundamentalist roots, this chapter on healthy interaction with the world resonated with me so well. In any case, Purswell paints a glorious picture of God's covenant dealings with all the earth.Moving from God's overarching redemption plan, he elevates our mundane day-to-day duties as part of that plan. He closes his section on work with this appeal:So don't just "go to work" and "do your job"--see your job as a way to imitate God, serve God, and love others. This doesn't mean work will never be difficult or frustrating or tedious; the curse ensures that it will be at times. But God's creational purposes and Christ's redeeming work infuse our work with meaning, and promise God-glorifying fruit as a result.Purswell calls us to enjoy, engage and evangelize the world. "We receive God's earthly gifts, pursue God's purposes in earthly life, and work for the salvation of people made in God's image. All of life lived for the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31)".The final chapter exposes the tension once again. While we are to be in the world and working for its good, we are also not to love what it loves and prize what it prizes. Once again, the book stresses two bents which typify Christians:Some have strictly spiritual preoccupations. For them the present is of little consequence, pleasures are periolous, spirituality means self-denial...Others relish life in this world. Their delight in God's temporal gifts is unrestrained, their enjoyment of their physical existence untempered, their hope in earthly endeavors absolute....The answer finally is the cross of Christ. The cross tells us who we are, interprets the world we live in, transforms our view of people and gives our lives purpose. Finding our place in God's story of redemption is the ultimate cure for a love of this world's desires.This book has the potential to transform your view of the Christian life. I cannot recommend it highly enough.