"Do Not Be Yoked Together With Unbelievers."

A spiritual playpen where the crying 

babies must be appeased!

(Joseph Bianchi)

In the twenty-first century, we are 

obsessed with self-satisfaction and 

getting our desires met. Hence, any 

teaching that invades our lifestyle 

and tells us we must alter or discard 

out old habits, is usually consigned 

to the junk pile. 

In so thinking and doing, the church 

has been transformed into a spiritual 

playpen where the crying babies 

must be appeased with what 

makes them feel good.

The Evangelical world is abuzz with terms 

like "purpose driven church" or "seeker 

friendly church". What these terms really 

amount to is one thing:compromise.

The goal of churches should not be 

to see how much like the world they 

can be, so as to make worldly people 

feel comfortable. Rather, the churches 

should be so unlike the world, so alien 

to the world, that the disillusioned 

unbeliever will be drawn to them.

"Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.
 For what do righteousness and wickedness 
  have in common?
 Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
 What harmony is there between CHRIST and Belial?
 What does a believer have in common 
   with an unbeliever?
 What agreement is there between 
the temple of GOD and idols?
For we are the temple of the living GOD. 
As GOD has said: "I will live with them 
and walk among them, and I will be their 
GOD, and they will be my people."  
"Therefore come out from them and 
be separate, says the LORD. Touch no 
unclean thing, and I will receive you."  
"I will be a FATHER to you, and you 
will be my sons and daughters, 
says the LORD Almighty." 
2 Corinthians 6:14-18

  
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