Often, churches and those who call themselves Christians try to look like the unsaved world.
Should Christians try to look like the world? Living lives in obedience to God will cause Christians to look really different. Light looks different than darkness and salt tastes different than unsalted (Matthew 5:13-16). So Christians will look different, because they are different. They are new creatures, totally new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
[17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Christians should not try to look like anything. Instead, they should strive diligently to obey God. How that looks to others does not matter.
If unsaved people would like to be with those who are and look like the world, they probably would not go seeking them at churches. Unsaved people might go to a church to encounter people who are different than what they are used to.
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