all of those grooves etched in your mind didn’t go away. The Influence of Our Culture You can walk a long time in this world before one thing will influence the spiritual part of you. We constantly receive stimuli from our culture. We are constantly being bombarded with counterfeit meanings from the world. The very world we live in is geared to feed the flesh. Someone has said the flesh is the bridge that is in touch with the world. The world crosses over that bridge into the believer’s life and produces