You’re in this world … and that’s the important thing.

I have always been quite a realistic person. As such I’ve struggled with the flippant way–from my perspective–that some Christians are able to explain and identify with the things that happen in the world around them. The saying: you are in the world but not of it (developed from the scripture John 17:15-17) must be a favourite. That scripture in my experience is often used to teach of expound upon the belief that the believer must refrain from the worldly–sinful–distractions that most other beings engage in but rather they must keep themselves pure sort of like the message in the “and be not conformed to this world” scripture from Paul. However, oftentimes many Christians take it just that one step further and seem to develop an inability to realistically view the world around them.