Worldliness

Kevin DeYoung referenced this quote in Hole in Our Holiness. Here's the original:

Modernity presents an interlocking system of values that has invaded and settled within the psyche of every person. Modernity is simply unprecedented in its power to remake human appetites, thinking processes, and values. It is, to put it in biblical terms, the worldliness of Our Time. For worldliness is the system of values and beliefs, behaviors and expectations, in any given culture that have at their center the fallen human being and that relegate to their periphery any thought about God. Worldliness is what makes sin look normal in any age and righteousness seem odd. Modernity is worldliness, and it has concealed its values so adroitly in the abundance, the comfort, and the wizardry of our age that even those who call themselves the people of God seldom recognize them for what they are.¹

So how are we doing with worldliness? How am I doing? Am I glad to embrace Christian freedom but without an equal pursuit of Christian virtue²?  Is there a danger of "gospel-centered" [fill in the blank] becoming just a slogan? The words are meaningless if I'm unwilling to bring every, and I mean every, area of my life under the scrutiny of the Word of God.

1. God in the Wasteland, David Wells, Eerdmans, pg. 29.
2. Hole in Our Holiness, Kevin DeYoung, Crossway, pg. 18.