Let me ever manipulate you like that.

If you ever detect in me, this guy's starting to use language on Sunday morning without

a, without real truth content, without warrant, without evidence, without biblical underpinning.

He's just creating effects through emotional religious language.

Nail me for him.

And don't let anybody else do it either.

How do we remain committed to truth amidst a culture that is increasingly indifferent to it. In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper explores the subtle pressures of urban life and media influence

that challenge our allegiance to biblical truth.

This seminar was originally presented at Bethlehem Baptist Church

on February 2nd, 1994.

Pressure from modern urbanization.

Quote from Wells, the modern workplace not only diminishes accountability,

but also undercuts the cogency of religious belief and

morality. How's that? Cities create, and we all live in them, everybody here today, I presume,

lives in this metroplex of two million people, and it's a strange thing, what we live in. What are

the forces at work? This is very interesting.

Cities create their own psychological environments, bringing together in close proximity a wide

range of world views, cultural and ethnic differences, personal values. The kind of pluralism, let me stop there.

If you just have rural life, you can sort of choose your village, you know,

and you can all be rednecks or you can all be, you know, Mormons,

or you can all be Baptists or something, and you can sort of

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