The importance of values in American life remains critical as society continues to coarsen and deteriorate. Over time, the nation's values have not improved, with a noticeable shift leftward across the entire Liberal-Conservative spectrum since at least the early twentieth century. This shift reveals a major weakness: American values are no longer anchored to immovable principle, having only a tenuous hold on the founding principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Progressive demands often require stretching Constitutional principles or appealing to non-American sources to justify their place in jurisprudence, while conservatives generally support the original intent of fixed principles. This untethering from foundational values separates members of God's church from the Liberal-Conservative spectrum, as their views do not align with the world's values, hopes, or goals. Called to be different and set apart, their values are rooted in God's Word, the certain and authoritative bedrock that guides and preserves them toward God's Kingdom, where their true citizenship resides. In these days of societal degeneration, holding firmly to this foundation ensures they remain strong amidst shifting values.

The source of values is the human heart, which represents the center of a person's emotions, attitudes, reasoning, intellect, character, and whole personality. The heart generates what a person does and conditions all activities, so that character and the quality of living depend upon its functioning. Values are absorbed from relationships in family, school, community, religion, clubs, and other associations, forming traditions that produce aimless conduct. These values are assigned to objects, concepts, ideas, and attitudes, often through a subconscious process that begins in the first years of life and continues as the heart establishes commitments to them. The heart is committed to its values because it has lived with them for many years and is self-serving, deceitful, and resistant to change. God's Word sets the standards for values that produce freedom from death. Conversion is the process of changing from values that produce death to eternal values set in heaven by God.

Many American adults determine what is right or wrong based on personal experience. A significant portion of the population believes that every culture must establish its own acceptable morality. Some Americans hold that the Bible supplies absolute moral truths applicable to all people in every situation. The morality of self-fulfillment has taken the place of previous norms, emphasizing the discovery of oneself and adherence to what suits the individual. Humanism serves as the religion for many, positioning the human as the primary deity. Relativism functions to distort understanding and diminish moral standards. God's absolute truth stands in contrast to human wisdom, which fails to locate Him. Adherence to God's words yields spiritual blessings.