Such Christian Gnosticism causes us to reject our responsibility as stewards of Creation, and keeps us from admitting that Christ is Lord over every part of his Creation. If anything, this disobedient retreat from our God-given responsibilities means that Christians are ensuring that Jesus is denied as Lord of Creation. It is obvious that this influence causes our stewardship over the ecological state of the environment to suffer. After all, the environment is material, and it is destined for extermination anyway. Stewardship in just government suffers as well, since no Christian should be involved in worldly pursuits.
Secular work is cut off from spiritual service.
As was mentioned above in regard to Satan, the worldliness evident in anti-worldly Gnosticism is the net effect of attitudes and beliefs which see all that is material in Creation operating independently of God. The same Gnostic disdain is held for culture in general, including dancing, drinking, reading secular literature, or going to movies. Rather, this thinking limits sin to things external to us, ignoring completely our guilt for inwardly giving in to the unseen sinful desires operating within us. Nor are other Christian truths safe from this mess. The Sacraments of the Lord's Supper and Baptism suffer because they become merely movements of matter in this Gnostic understanding of Christianity.