You can't fight the undertow once you're in it

Christians who think they can live with one foot in the church and one foot in the world will eventually get swept out to sea. You can't have it both ways.

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. (James 4:4)

When I was little, my family lived in Houston, and we’d often drive down to the coastal city of Galveston on the Gulf of Mexico. I have a lot of fond memories o…