Stay or Leave?

So I've been listening to Dave Matthews a lot lately. One of the cds of his that I preordered, they sent me another cd with some of his live stuff on it. There's a version of his song, "Stay or Leave," which has one of those haunting guitar melodies that gets stuck in your head, and bounces around for a few days.

Now I'm not the biggest Dave fan in the world, that's for sure, but I really like the jam band style of music. His lyrics usually are about drugs or sex or something that completely goes against everything I hold true.

But on this song, there's a line that goes something like this:
"Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing us"

Now, the wake up naked drinking coffee line isn't what I'm stuck on. It's the rest of the phrase:
Making plans to change the world while the world is changing us.

I think that's where most Christians are. We get so on fire to change the world, and then we look around and see that the world is changing us.
I really don't know where I'm going with this. Other than to note that I want to change the world, and yet I get caught up in what the world says is important, just like everyone else. And if you think peer pressure ends when your teen years are over...think again. I want a video ipod. Why do I want one? Because they're fashionable. Do I need one? Of course I don't need one. I want it, and therefore I've been saving to get one.
I'm beginning to think that there has to be an easier way of life. A key word in the Christian circles these days is missional. I've yet to read a definition that truly fits what it means, but from what I understand, it's being all things to all people, it's making the message of Christ relevant and easier for today's culture to understand.
And again we get a mixed message. Be all things to all people, but be in the world but not of it.

There are only a few things in life that my family really needs. Food. Water. Shelter. Basic utilities. Basic needs such as clothing and medicines. Insurance. I need an automobile for my job.
But then there's everything else I want. Cable, internet, a new computer, nice furniture, and the list goes on and on and on.

Maybe I'm becoming Amish. I don't know. The Lord has blessed me with enough money to do and have what my family needs and mostly what we want.

But I'd really like to be about that changing the world, without the world changing me business.