The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Midweek Meeting June 4 2025


There were nine of us last Wednesday and uniquely though we were so few there were at least five of us present who could have taken the meeting. I say that because in addtion to myself and my assistant Eddie, who have both led the meeting many times and four church member regulars, we also had three visitors. A friend of mine, a German pastor called Stefan Beyer, is staying with us this week and could easily have told us about his work in Jena and/or led a Bible study. Further there was the dynamic duo J P and Fiona Earnest from Bangor who had both been at nearby London Seminary that day - Fiona doing the Flourish course for women and J P lecturing to the seminary students on evangelisitc work. J P, field operation manager for the Open Air Mission, would happily have told us about their work. They are in London next week adn will be at the derby in Epsom this weekend. Fiona is the UK Deputation and Communications Officer for the Albanian Evangelical Mission and would have happily told us all about the current work in Albania (which has been off our radar for 20 years I am afraid). Anyway what they got was a Bible study from me on Romans 8:29, 30 and then we all took turns to pray about the various things on our hearts.

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