Notice: These are more like “rules,” but the heart behind them isn’t legalism. I’m well aware they aren’t a measure of my spiritual maturity at all. (If anything, my need for them is a measure of my immaturity.) Not one of them makes me any more loving or holy; I just recognize the power of things like technology and media to both form and deform me. Left unchecked, these things are designed to consume my life and shape me into a specific kind of person—one who is wildly unlike Jesus. But my deepest desire is for God to consume my life and, in time, shape me into his image.
