BQ: We know that we're to be good examples, yet sometimes we just don't want to really pull through and submit. We want to have our salvation and cling to our transgressions, pretending that we're doin' the best we can, and maybe, if we ignore it and squint a little, it'll be OK.

Here's the question: Can we hang on to the ways of the world and make it?

There's a lot here, because it’s important, but consider the following verses:
James 1:8 & 4:4,
1 Pet 4:1-3,
Col 1:21-23,
Matthew 6:24,
Galatians 2:20 & 5:24

We must be all in or all out.