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Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

"The church must be distinct from the world to reach the world." - From Chapter 1 "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9, ESV). Holy and dedicated to declaring the excellencies of God-this is the church, or is it? Can...

and ChristianityToday.com—indicate that evangelical Christianity is becoming increasingly worldly, and that it is ever more becoming a mere mirror of secular culture. The September 2001 issue of Emerging Trends, published by the Princeton Religion Research Center, bears the headline “Religion Is Gaining Ground, But Morality Is Losing Ground.” Positively it notes that adult weekly church attendance has increased from 38 percent in 1996 to 44 percent in 2000—up 6 percent in four years. The same is true