Toward the end of my research for this book, I asked John Piper how he uses technology in fulfilling the purpose and calling of his life, and he was quick to gush over all the ways his apps and Bible software have fed his soul over the years. At the end, he looked down at his laptop, his iPad, and his iPhone, all sitting on the table, and he said, “I could almost come to tears over how precious they are to me.” Yes, they are glowing tools made mostly by men and women who are not submitted to God, he reiterated, and they are tools that open up his life to a thousand convenient temptations, but
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