> "The church father Justin Martyr named four major challenges to discipleship for the early Christians: sexual immorality, magic, wealth, and ethnic hatred. Nearly two thousand years later, what has changed? I donβt know about you, but magic isnβt a major temptation for me. At least not the kind of magic that involves wearing pointy hats and casting spells. But author Andy Crouch noted that our technology makes a decent stand-in for the magic that was so alluring to our spiritual ancestors. If you swap technology for magic, we pretty much have the same list today."
β Drew Dyck, *Your Future Self Will Thank You* (2019)
