I enjoy walking with my Lord Jesus the Christ day and night shooting my Nikon to take pictures of all that our Heavenly Father has blessed us with here on earth to see. People, flowers, space, buildings and life.

Keeping it sane in an insane world is an inconvenience at an inconvenient time!! So Be gentle. My life's a work in progress.

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. Rom. 12:2 (AMP)

Kenneth S. Wuest has an excellent translation—actually an interpretation—of this verse: "And stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from within you and is not representative of what you are in your inner being, but is patterned after this age; but change your outward expression to one that comes from within and is representative of your inner being, by the renewing of your mind, resulting in your putting to the test what is the will of God, the good and well-pleasing, and complete will, and having found that it meets specification, placing your approval upon it" (Romans in the Greek New Testament, p. 290)

Although this is rather elaborate, it is exactly what Paul is saying in this passage of Scripture. Paul is urging the believer not to fashion his life and conduct by those around him, even those in the church.