(thuh wuurld). Low stress on the vowel sound, simillar to how, when recounting a ghost story, one would pronounce a potentially dangerous characters name.

biblical. Often used by Jesus. “If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but i have chosen you out of the world- therefore the world hates you.” (John 15,19)

- n. The people and culture outside the church, usually counter Christian culture.

Often incinuating a mentality of 'us and them,' or a warning to separate yourself from the World because it has perverting effects.

There are many ways in which the world can tempt a christian sex, drugs, rock'n'roll… in the modern world popular culture is usually the most aggressive agent for drawing christian into the world. In the 50's and 60's the battle between the church and the world was especially apparent.

“They [the Beatles] wanted to subvert western culture. They were pro-drugs, pro-evolution, and pro-promiscuous sex; anti christ and more… Rock music is a negation of the soul, spirit and mind, and is destructive to the body… The muscles are weakend, the heartbeat is affected, and the adrenal glands and sex hormones are upset by continued listening… It's also been shown that rock music destroys house plants. If it destroys God's plants, what's it doing to young people?” David Noebel