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say “happy consciousness” because, if all you have is fear, your smartphone almost certainly becomes one of the ways you escape the thought of death.
The job is not to impress anybody. The job is to make much of Christ and love people. That is why we were created. So don’t waste your life grooming your mule. Make him bear the weight of a thousand works of love. Make him tread the heights with you in the mountains of worship.
We cannot become digital monks.”
technophobe. O’Donovan is exactly right when he says that our temptation is to watch someone doing something and then merely to copy the behavior and lose sight of our personal callings and life goals.
What we need are new life disciplines birthed from a new set of life priorities and empowered by our new life freedom in Jesus Christ.
This book fails if, having read it, you only hate yourself more; it succeeds only if you enjoy Christ more.
Too often what my phone exposes in me is not the holy desires of what I know I should want, not even what I think I want, and especially not what I want you to think I want. My phone screen divulges in razor-sharp pixels what my heart really wants.22 The glowing screen on my phone projects into my eyes the desires and loves that live in the most abstract corners of my heart and soul, finding visible expression in pixels of images, video, and text for me to see and consume and type and share. This means that whatever happens on my smartphone, especially under the guise of anonymity, is the true
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Honestly, this may explain the passcodes. To get into a phone is to peek into the interior of another’s soul, and we may be too ashamed for others to see what we clicked and opened and chased around online.
we now conveniently carry in one hand. Every time we open our Bibles, our souls are being fed through centuries of technological advancement.
Tower of Babel,
“Human autonomy will take credit for technological innovation from here on, thankyouverymuch.”
Technology is not inherently evil, but it tends to become the platform of choice to express the fantasy of human autonomy.
better or worse, technology fundamentally changes how we talk about God. And technology shapes the way God communicates himself to us. God makes himself clear to us through metaphors of technology, and we find it possible to define him, and also to distort him, by projecting metaphors of technology onto him.
come. We do not trust in handheld things. We do not trust in handmade things. Instead, we long to be in the presence of our triune God in a new creation, built not by human ingenuity and sinful hands, but by the very design and innovation of God—the sinless and deathless and tearless creation God has always intended.
We are never offline.
