We should not be surprised that God has a problem when Christians are worldly.

Dr. Tony Evans says God is clear about what worldly means.

When the Bible uses the word world, it is talking about an organized plan that has one overriding goal

and that is the exclusion of God.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

God put his church here to change the world, but too often things are happening the other way around.

Dr. Evans says when the world changes the church, both come out losers.

Let's join him as he teaches us how to stop the spread of worldliness before it stops us.

In the movie Fatal Attraction, a relationship that was unauthorized was in a position to destroy

a man's life, family, and career.

Because what was thought to be something for fun and games turned out to be something disastrous

to his well-being.

In James, chapter 4, he wants to warn us about a fatal attraction.

And in this case, the attraction is to the world.

He wants to outline to Christians because this is written to Christians.

The damage that the world does to our relationship with Christ and our experience with God

when we are engaged in this fatal attraction.

When the Bible speaks about the world, it uses the Greek word cosmos,

from which we get our English word cosmetic, cosmopolitan.

The Greek word cosmos, when speaking not about the physical glow, but about the spiritual reality,

refers to a system. The world is referencing a system.

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