Here’s the warning: as Christians, if we fail to manage life’s distractions wisely, we will lose our urgency and—in the sobering words of one smartphone-addicted mom of young children—we may “forget how to walk with the Lord.”37 Distraction management is a critical skill for spiritual health, and no less in the digital age. But if we merely exorcise one digital distraction from our lives without replacing it with a newer and healthier habit, seven more digital distractions will take its place.38 Over time, we may lose our hearts by the erosive power of unchecked amusements. Eventually we
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