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A change of Life

I was talking to a guy after camp about what he is going to do next.  The conversation was circling around the camp topic "Worldliness" and how can it be less influential on us?  I Spoke to him that it's important to surround your life constantly with the sermons in our days, like www.gty.org or www.slovo.org, so it could continue shaping our lives day after day.  I suggested to get in the habit of reading books by good Christian authors.  I also said that being accountable to a godly man should not be an option, these people massage our thinking in the view of the scripture.

After explaining what should be his life and how this life is a blessing to me, his words were:  "well, then I would have to restructure my whole life, I have to live differently."  And that is exactly what I wanted him to see.  Like one of the preacher from camp said: "we don't have the gospel come and fit our life, but we have our life fit the gospel.  What did christ meant when he said pick your cross and follow me, in other word, cross will define our life."  I told him that if he is not going to change his lifestyle then his life is not going to be different.

I hope this camp will not only give us an understanding how worldliness is so much of our lives, but give's us a mind that will restructure our life so the worldliness would have little impact on us.  
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