2009-10-02T15:10:24-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/of+the+world/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2012:2&version=NIV 2009-10-02T15:10:24-05:00 When God saves us from sin, He doesn't just want to see an outward change in us. He wants to see a complete inner transformation of the way we think. We are called to renew our minds, casting off our old ways of thinking and rejecting the world's wisdom. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2015:19&version=NIV 2009-09-09T11:58:42-05:00 It's natural that the sinful world will hate and persecute Christians--it recognizes that it has no hold over them, and it hates them for it. Christians can expect to be rejected by a world that operates under radically different values than their own.