March 15, 2026 - How to Live a Holy Life in a Contaminated Society

What impedes our spiritual life from flourishing and growing? With whom should we associate or disengage? To what degree should we relate to the society around us? What dangers do we need to guard our minds against regarding the values of a contaminated society? What may be even more subtle is watching out for deviations from the purity of the gospel that call forth disassociation from people who disagree with a radicalized, narrow, and wrong view of what the Scriptures actually teach. There is no question that the people we associate with can affect us, but what we come to believe will affect the decisions we make and determine not only our earthly future but also our eternal future. What we are about to discover is that Paul is not suggesting that we stop relating to unbelievers. Rather, the people he is warning us against are those who profess Christianity but are deviating from biblical truth, which leads people away from a biblical lifestyle.