Are you a Friend of God or of This World?

Why this seeming paradox, an all-time high in church memberships and an all-time high in felonies committed? And why can it be said that “personal spirituality is static”? Why?Is it because the great majority of persons attracted to religion today are not really interested in getting “vital contact with God.” They want to be friends of both God and this world. They like to hang on to God, whose friendship is convenient in times of emergency or death, but they would never think of trying to cultivate his friendship at the expense of their friendship with the world and it's senual pleasures. But according to the Bible ,Jesus made no such mistake when he was upon earth. Regarding himself and his followers he prayed: “They are no part of the world just as I am no part of the world.” And addressing them, he stated: “Because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.”—John 17:16; 15:19. Are you hated by this world because of your trying to be a Friend of the only true God ? John 17:25