In light of the pace of all these digital temptations, a young man who struggled with digital vices asked if he should give up his smartphone and revert back to a “dumbphone.” John Piper applied a wise strategy: “My guess is that some are going to say, ‘Well, look, Piper, since the phone is not the problem, but the heart is the problem, it is pointless to pitch the phone.’ To which I respond, ‘No, it is not pointless to pitch the phone.’”
