A Biblical Look at Social Media

[ElCapitan]

I always laughed at the preachers who bashed social media because I knew that once they learned its power and potential they would embrace it. I can attest to this as I have seen preachers bash Facebook and today they are on it constantly.

Side note: they've also discovered its a way to spy on their congregation. I have unfriended many staff members from my alma mater because they were using Facebook to "check up" on people. It was said that you could not be on Facebook unless you had friended a staff member so they could keep tabs on your Christian testimony.

[lucrezaborgia]

Speaking of social media: http://theresurgence.com/2012/08/06/resu...e-hangouts

[DestinyIsJoy]

(08-20-2012 04:55 PM)tiarali Wrote:  Fundamentalists are terrified of social media, because they can try and own the media, lawyers, and police, but they can't do a damned thing about social media. It is being used in a big way to expose their evils, so they have to at least keep their own away from it.

I do agree with this, Tiarali.

[JeseC]

(08-22-2012 02:29 PM)ElCapitan Wrote:  I always laughed at the preachers who bashed social media because I knew that once they learned its power and potential they would embrace it. I can attest to this as I have seen preachers bash Facebook and today they are on it constantly.

Side note: they've also discovered its a way to spy on their congregation. I have unfriended many staff members from my alma mater because they were using Facebook to "check up" on people. It was said that you could not be on Facebook unless you had friended a staff member so they could keep tabs on your Christian testimony.

If they expect that to work they're really stupid when it comes to privacy settings.

[C_Fresh]

It depends. FB is notorious for screwing up privacy settings every time they make an update.

[ElCapitan]

(08-28-2012 01:26 AM)JeseC Wrote:  If they expect that to work they're really stupid when it comes to privacy settings.

In one case I know of a young person did hide almost everything from church staff using privacy settings and was confronted by a staff member when they couldn't read their posts.

[Historian]

Quote:“You are now or soon shall be what your friends are!” This was a powerful statement that I heard a preacher say many years ago. It made me stop and look at the people that I considered as friends. “Are they the kind of person that I want to be?”

This disgusted me. I'm a slave to my friends? I have to be like they are? I have no say in the matter? I won't take God's Word and commands into account? I can't make friends with anyone who isn't living a perfect life, even to help them? The Holy Spirit is impotent in my life and theirs?

Not to mention that the final statement is utterly self-centered. I can't be YOUR friend, because you aren't as good as me. But I expect this other person over here to be MY friend, so that I can grow.