Children of the world and children of God

They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. - 1 John 4:5-6

There are a couple of simple truths that we need to grasp.

The world is not going to act like the church
The church is not going to act like the world -- or should noot

There are too many differences. We can’t see eye to eye. We are never really going to understand each other.

The world speaks and acts like the world and the rest of the world gets it. Those who know God act like those who know God and those who know God get it.

The world is not going to get those who know God and those who know God are not going to get the world. We may very well agree on some issues and ideas, but we are never going to really understand each other because we live in two different realms. The world’s focus is on the world and our focus is (should be) on the kingdom of God.

We need to realise that we can’t make the world act the world we want to act by throughs laws and legislation. We world is is going to act like the world. And we should be acting like Christ. We know from His time on earth how the world got along with Him.

So instead of trying to reform the world through legislation we need to be striving to change the world through the love of Christ. Only Christ can change the hearts of the world, and we can only show them Christ through sharing His love with them.