This is a topic long neglected by the church. But the Lord was always clear about culture, and warned His followers that they were lambs surrounded by wolves, living in a world, amidst a crooked and perverse generation. The idea of separation from the world was not meant to imply monastic life for a believer. It meant a separation of values and conduct individually and collectively guided by the word of God, hence the Pilgrim and stranger identity. Being in the world, and not of the world is not an easy task for even the strongest believer, because the world system is unrelenting, demanding, somewhat ruthless, and led by Satan in a contentious spiritual battle which requires intense resistance. As I have been around for nearly 76 years, I have watched the culture from my own humble perspective. I first watched television at 5 years old on a 17 inch Westinghouse TV, and well into the 1950's and beyond there were wholesome values and moral lessons tied to comedy and music, to detective dramas and westerns, and documentaries and news stories watched by entire families. But the generations coming into its own rendered traditional values, faith, and the Bible "obsolete," and the age of permissiveness and tolerance of sin entered casually, twisting truth, perverting the society, academia, and the church. Apostasy came into its own as well, and a prosperity Gospel assured some Christians that one can have both the world and Christ at the same time. Individual rights became sanctimonious. Individual responsibility became anathema unless it supported new cultural norms. How do we deal with it all now, now that the values have changed so much in the culture in which we live? We start with ourselves. We go back to our Bibles, the source of truth, we share our faith with the lost, we strive against sin regardless of the cost. We accept the offense of the culture against what we believe, and we walk the straight path, sinners saved by grace alone, by the finished work of Christ on the cross, in a crooked and perverse generation. Either we are God's people or not. Either saved or lost. Soli Deo Gloria.