Young people are immoral. They use drugs and four letter words. The neighborhood is deteriorating. Couples are getting divorced and marry again. Films are full of sex and violence.
Child abuse is rampant.
The Internet is riddled with pornography. We need not approve any of those things, but none of them can be changed in God's direction except by the power of the Spirit. That means that when we read a text or a parable we never know what the Holy Spirit is going to say to us. No wonder Paul was upset when one of the churches he had planted came under Pharisee teachers. Going back to laws and rules and legalism is turning off course towards the shoals.