The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all