Reckless Use.

While growing up in the City of Philadelphia, enjoying the morning church service was something to really think about for days to come. The move of the spirit, people being saved, healed, encouraged and set free.  No matter how bad your week was, fellowship with Gods people was a real encouragement and your spirit was lifted by the time worship was over. There was such a spirit of reverence and respect for the place in which the saints gathered together for worship.

More than 30 years ago, we didn’t have the ability to stream video from cell phones (we had pay phones) we could not text, tweet or communicate instantly during the service, but we could pass notes and whisper or ask the usher to pass the note or meet in the back of the church to pass on  a message quietly.

Technology is a great thing, we no longer have to pass a note or whisper, we can just text what we want to say and its received instantly and in most cases its received around the world.   If you want to show a friend something going on right now, you can stream the video live or record it and send it later.  We no longer really have to gossip (verbally) we can text it or twitter.

Pulpit blunders, slips of the tongue or anything news or gossip worthy can be instantly reported the moment it happens. Christian values don’t end when you pickup your cell phone and record or tweet something you think you need to share with the masses.  What ever is pleasing and conducive to the spirit of God, doesn’t change with the use of your smart phone.  How can you hear what the spirit of God has to say, when your sending an instant message to friends.  If its something degrading, hurtful, harmful, insulting, malicious, ask yourself; would I want to masses to know?

There is so much junk and buffoonery on twitter (among believers) about what goes on in local churches, who’s doing what, who said what, who’s real, who’s phony and much more.  And these are saints? God forbid.  Technology can be put to better use than this in the church.  Weather you catch someone in the wrong(you should go to them anyway)  or you just want to tweet some juicy thoughtless gossip, it has the same effect. When non-believers read about the antics going on in churches (on your face book page and on twitter), it is implied that believers are no different than the non-believers because we do the same thing they do (we just try to keep it secret)

Matthew 5:13  “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything…” (NASB)

Originally posted 2010-02-01 16:45:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter