We have a new grandchild.....and he's our first grandchild! When the guys at my work used to come around with pictures of their grandchildren, I'm retired now, I would smile...seem interested in the pics...and make nice comments. I now know what all the excitement was about! But wild horses....wild horses couldn't get me to look at a Facebook page even with pictures of our precious grandchild on it....such is my utter distaste for that social media from it's germination on Harvard's campus to its social media hegemony throughout this world. I'll wait for the Pony Express riders to come in with the mail before I partake of that medium.
Have you read the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the Harvard twins...whatever their names were...and the Napster guy? Have you read any of the enormous amount of research on the harmful effects of Facebook? And the word 'harmful' is an understatement. Have you ever just sat down and thought about what Satan might possibly come up with if he wanted to somnabulize the entire world? Well, you don't have to...he already did! Have you considered....even for a moment or two....the potential tyranny for such a monolithic entity that Facebook has become?
So what can we do? Nothing....sorry to say.....absolutely nothing.....except avoid it....not be a part of it. But alas there are so many good things associated with Facebook! Let me count them.........hmmm.........OK there's nothing good about it. But what about the person who may come across Ligonier Ministries through Facebook where they might never have elsewhere? 'The world is awash in a narcissistic trance but a number of people get saved'....even Donald Trump wouldn't go for a deal like that! You are essentially telling me....are you not....that God could not find those people without Facebook? God whittled 32,000 of Gideon's men down to 300 but this is different...He needs Facebook.
Hardly a day goes by without an horrendous news story coming out on the 'abuses' of Facebook. Folks, these are not abuses, they are natural outgrowths of the phenomenon, and they will only get worse and worse. Drudge has two articles on Facebook as I write this...."Facebook gives staff green light to protest President" and ""Zuckerberg schemes world manipulation....'mind -control' confirmed....future of 'staring at walls.'
Time alone will have to prove this out. Actually it already has....but more time will be needed. In the hands of a Christian ministry Facebook poses no immediate problem....R. C. Sproul shares the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ in a marvelous way....if only that were the extent of it but it also encourages people with their participation on Facebook....along with their children or friends. In other words it perpetuates the problem instead of identifying it and warning of the many and varied potential disastrous consequences to not only individuals but entire nations and the entire world!
I'm not wasting my time with this post on an issue that nothing can be done about, if the reader sees a serious problem and then at least uses the medium circumspectly, and then passes this warning on to loved ones.
Have you read the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the Harvard twins...whatever their names were...and the Napster guy? Have you read any of the enormous amount of research on the harmful effects of Facebook? And the word 'harmful' is an understatement. Have you ever just sat down and thought about what Satan might possibly come up with if he wanted to somnabulize the entire world? Well, you don't have to...he already did! Have you considered....even for a moment or two....the potential tyranny for such a monolithic entity that Facebook has become?
So what can we do? Nothing....sorry to say.....absolutely nothing.....except avoid it....not be a part of it. But alas there are so many good things associated with Facebook! Let me count them.........hmmm.........OK there's nothing good about it. But what about the person who may come across Ligonier Ministries through Facebook where they might never have elsewhere? 'The world is awash in a narcissistic trance but a number of people get saved'....even Donald Trump wouldn't go for a deal like that! You are essentially telling me....are you not....that God could not find those people without Facebook? God whittled 32,000 of Gideon's men down to 300 but this is different...He needs Facebook.
Hardly a day goes by without an horrendous news story coming out on the 'abuses' of Facebook. Folks, these are not abuses, they are natural outgrowths of the phenomenon, and they will only get worse and worse. Drudge has two articles on Facebook as I write this...."Facebook gives staff green light to protest President" and ""Zuckerberg schemes world manipulation....'mind -control' confirmed....future of 'staring at walls.'
Time alone will have to prove this out. Actually it already has....but more time will be needed. In the hands of a Christian ministry Facebook poses no immediate problem....R. C. Sproul shares the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ in a marvelous way....if only that were the extent of it but it also encourages people with their participation on Facebook....along with their children or friends. In other words it perpetuates the problem instead of identifying it and warning of the many and varied potential disastrous consequences to not only individuals but entire nations and the entire world!
I'm not wasting my time with this post on an issue that nothing can be done about, if the reader sees a serious problem and then at least uses the medium circumspectly, and then passes this warning on to loved ones.
