God can use us to encourage and challenge one another in all kinds of ways, including text messages, tweets, and Snapchat stories, but the massive fight we’re fighting is most effectively fought face-to-face and life on life, because we will always be prone to project a different picture of ourselves, a version of ourselves that we like, instead of the real us. The temptation is still there in face-to-face friendships too, but it’s so much easier to hide online. Consistently putting ourselves together in the same room immediately makes us more vulnerable.
