12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

by Tony Reinke

“dividing attention is a typical expression of disdain.”

“I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

“It is difficult to serve God with our heart, soul, strength and mind when we are diverted and distracted and multi-tasking everything.”

The more distracted we are digitally, the more displaced we become spiritually.

We cannot be baptized or feast at the Lord’s Table on our phones.

If you follow Christ, the world will unfollow you.

In God’s economy, approval is something we must wait for.

To be changed and challenged, we need the clean sea breeze of old books,

the power to immediately share anything we see or do conditions what we capture in the first place.

The smartphone is causing a social reversal: the desire to be alone in public and never alone in seclusion.

“Permit not your minds to be easily distracted, or you will often have your devotion destroyed.”

Digital technology must not fill up all the silent gaps of life.

Our Creator is no respecter of privacy laws.

I do not have “time to kill”—I have time to redeem.