First, in all the noise, Christians must identify and cherish wisdom. Before warning his son about the endless making of books and the weariness of much study, he wrote: “The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. My son, beware of anything beyond these” (Eccles. 12:11–12a). We must assign a value judgment to all information we take in. We don’t engage with digital content simply to keep up, to be informed, or to connect. Instead, we plug our ears to the noise of novelty so that we can identify meaning and
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