Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this episode of Ask Paul Tripp, Paul answers a question about living as a follower of Christ in a world that is increasingly non-Christian.

Paul gives us hope in the midst of all the difficulties that believers face every single

day.

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Here's Paul answering the question, how do I live as a Christian in a non-Christian world?

I've been to South Korea many times, and one of my trips to Seoul, I was in a conversation with a pastor who had been in the United States for four years and doing a doctoral program and was, I just arrived

back in Korea to continue his work as a pastor. And I ask him how his return was. He said

something that I will never forget. He said, I've come back to a culture. I do not know and I do not

understand. I think that's an experience of many believers in our culture. There has been such

a rapid change in our culture that often you feel like I'm living in this world that I don't understand

anymore. It's, people have said, I feel like I'm attending some of their families' family

reunion and I don't get the culture and I don't get the language. There have been massive changes, particularly

very rapid in the last 10 years, most of that driven by a social media form of communication

where communication is constant and it's instant, where the entire world is available to us,

where we know what everybody's thinking from no-name individuals to people of a tremendous influence,

where everybody has a voice, and the din of that conversation can be very distracted and very confusing.

We carry in our pockets or in our purses these communication tools that have dramatic power to inform us, to distract us, to confuse us.

I believe when Stephen Jobs made the decision not to hand us a phone,

but to hand us a screen, the world changed. And perhaps we'll never be the same again. It's had

a seismic effect on the way that we think, the way that we live our lives, and the things

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