Hi friend, Phil Johnson here.

Welcome to a special edition of Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm here in the studio with John and we're taking a break from our regular

verse-by-verse teaching format today and tomorrow to talk about some of the biggest issues

and ominous trends in our society and where the church fits into all of that and how God's

people need to think about and respond to the

growing spiritual problems in the world. Now obviously there have been significant

changes in the culture. Just in the course of your lifetime, John,

so many conveniences have been developed,

and there have been so many technological advances,

and a lot of these changes have been for the better.

But if you look at the moral quality of life in the West,

you'd have to say that it's degenerating and it seems to be degenerating quickly.

Does it seem to you that the pace of our moral decline has

accelerated dramatically in the past half decade?

Well, yeah, I think if you just take a sort of a broad view of history. You talk about something like the

reformation. Prior to that, there's a thousand years of the Roman Catholic

Church dominating. The Reformation comes and it's epic and it goes for I think

well even until today but it wasn't long after that until humanism comes in but

those were always years I mean it could be many years, decades.

Now you can have trends in weeks or months

because of the massive, massive exposure

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