Friends, welcome back to the Ransom TARP Podcast. You are joining in on part three of a series that we are doing trying to unpack this thing called the world. What is quote

the world as scripture uses it and why is scripture so incredibly concerned about passages that we've been reading like keep

yourself from being polluted by the world and even stronger passages like don't you know that friendship with the world is

becoming an enemy of God and so we're just trying to get enough distance from it.

And to be honest, it feels like a half an inch

to pull our own selves out of it, just enough perspective

to talk about it and unpack it.

And so this is part three with me this week is my son Blaine,

who runs their and sons podcast with Sam and John Dale on our team.

As I've been doing with the previous two podcasts,

I'm going to throw out a couple cultural phenomena,

and we're going to kind of use that to riff and unpack,

what is the world in our current context?

Now, if you weren't here with episode one,

I used Starbucks and self-driving cars.

And why are we so fixated on convenience?

The future of the automobile industry is self-driving vehicle.

You didn't drive your own car anymore.

And then in episode two, what does it say about us,

that post a review, leave a comment is such a given right as soon as you

leave a restaurant my Google Max program is asking me to review it and then

tattoos as a cultural phenomenon, 1.6 billion dollars spent every year in the

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