We will be successful in our churches when we are more concerned with God’s assessment of us rather than being obsessed with society’s assessment.
We will be successful in our churches when we are determined to demonstrate the best of Christ rather than our ability to integrate worldliness into our churches.
We will be successful in our churches when we are driven to let the righteousness of Christ rule in us rather than be overruled by compromising Biblical wisdom so we can conform to worldly behavior.
We will be successful in our churches when we are more concerned with honoring God with our hearts and hands every day rather than giving God rhetorical lip service, while still holding on to our right to behave as un-Christ-like as possible and stay under the world’s radar.
“… if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him …”