As Christians, we are called to love God with everything we've got and lead people to Jesus. We gather with fellow believers in corporate worship and in small groups (Sunday School or community groups depending on your church's context), and even have fellowships as people's home or lunch at Taco Bell. We honor God in our lives and live a life of continual repentance, but can we still be ungodly.
A lot of times, we think of ungodly as being impure. Jerry Bridges wrote, in his book, Respectable Sins, Ungodliness describes an attitude toward God...Ungodliness may be defined as living one's everyday life with little or no thought of God, or of God's will, or of God's glory, or of one's dependence on God.
We can honor God on Sunday and can give him the stiff-arm the rest of week by not even acknowledging who he is and how dependent we are in Him. You can be ungodly in your relationships because you leave God out of them. You can be ungodly in your work thinking it is the work place where God is not welcomed so why bother. You can even be ungodly while listening to a sermon. You might be looking at your watch wondering how long is the Pastor going to be so I can get to lunch before the other churches get out.
We are commanded in scripture to give God glory in everything we do (see 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:17, and 3:23). Bridges said, We are not only to eat for the glory of God, we are to drive for the glory of God, we are to shop for the glory of God, and we are to engage in our social relationships to the glory of God. Everything we do is to be done to the glory of God. The good news of the Gospel is that, For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6). While we had no thought of God in our daily life and even during our worship, Christ died for us who could not help ourselves.
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