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Both arguments ring true at times, but “social media are largely what we make of them—escapist or transforming depending on what we expect from them and how we use them.”
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.
Church is a place for real encounters with others and for true self-disclosure among other sinners.
The sad truth is that many of us are addicted to our phones because we crave immediate approval and affirmation.
this unchecked impulse exposes something deeper and darker in us, a certain unbelief that drives us, something more similar to the lie that maybe a given moment is our last opportunity to get close to greatness.
What we want to become, we worship. And what we worship shapes our becoming.
“The way we interact online becomes the norm for how we interact offline.
“The problem is that we invite loneliness, even though it makes us miserable,” writes author Stephen Marche.
The most shaping conversations we need are full of friction,
We are not flawless; we are fallen repenters who require relational friction to grow and mature.
Our phones draw us into unhealthy habits not because we want unlimited information, but because we want to stay relevant and entertained. We want to be humored and liked.
Without wisdom, we foolishly get lost in the aimless now, in the explosion of novelty.
Christians, of all people, should be most vigilant not to unnecessarily shovel one another’s dirt into public view.
