We are living within a culture whose very nature is due to the fallen state of man. It is a culture, no matter the society, that demands conformance unto itself. This conformance is dictated to the members of the culture through external forces or influences within the culture that attempt to produce a shift in your value system—making your values, standards and convictions relative; changeable to that of popular culture where majority rules and there are no absolutes. These forces or influences include but are not all inclusive to music, media, internet, TV, video games, movies, radio, fads and fashions.
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It is critical to understand that culture through its demand to conform is defining rather than being defined and through this process has become a living, moving, always changing organism operating separately and independently with an agenda that is in direct confrontation—though subtle at times—with the purposes of God for His Church and for His people.
