responding is necessary to become insensitive and unresponsive to the world’s values and ways. Out of their wisdom and long experience, the Old Testament men of God recognized this truth when they told us, “Happy is the person who does not listen to the wicked, who does not go where sinners go, who does not do what bad people do” (see Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 1:10; 4:14–15). “Do not love the world nor the things in the world,” counseled John (1 John 2:15). The world is passing away. And everything that people