new church life : july / august 2017
about the future direction of the Church and had a fruitful and interesting discussion . Interest centered around how to adapt to our current generation here , and how to better support the rapid growth of the Church in Asia and Africa .
OUR NEW CHURCH VOCABULARY Part of a continuing series developed by the Rev . W . Cairns Henderson , 1961-1966 .
LOVE OF THE WORLD
This term denotes a material love of desiring to appropriate to oneself by every artifice the wealth and possessions of others ; one which causes a man to set his heart on riches and suffer the world to lead him away from heaven .
However , there is also a proper love of the world , but by regeneration it is subordinated to the love of heaven . This is an important teaching because , as the Writings emphasize , it is not necessary for man to renounce the world in order to enter the kingdom of heaven .
The spiritual man continues to love the world , as he continues to love himself , but as a master loves a servant . Love of the world is less deadly than love of self , but these two loves are the origins of all evils . ( See Heavenly Doctrine 76 ; True Christian Religion 507 )
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