Charlie Kirk, Social Media, & God's Design For Communication

I deleted Facebook/Instagram from my phone, and am taking a break from social media. Will occasionally check on my office computer. Why am I announcing this? Well I'm glad you asked (long post):

God didn't intend for us to have our interactions with other humans through technology, even through a phone call or text. All of these new mediums make it easy for us to misunderstand one another as you aren't seeing the heart and real reasons for the content posted like you do in face to face interactions. Do they make communication convenient sure, and I appreciate technology to an extent when it's used properly (not as the main way to communicate with other humans).

Also these newer technology mediums allow us to think, speak, and post things without thinking them through, praying them through, and give us a false sense of being heard when in reality we aren't being heard in the same way if the interaction were to be face to face. Video chat one on one is a far better way to get closest to God's design in how we communicate.

God also did not intend for us to have instant access to information about everything going on in every city, every state, every region and every country at any moment. He designed us to be a part of a local community, a local body of believers, with family and people we know and can be involved with daily & weekly. This instant global access allows us to come up with ridiculous conclusions/opinions, hear enough gossip/slander/evil speech to pollute any mind, and causes us to draw incomplete (lacking most details) and wrong conclusions about other people groups, regions, and nations nearly every time.

I'll end it here, all the major problems of the world are problems that are directly connected to the fact that sin entered the world when Adam and Eve sinned. There is one and only solution to this problem, and that solution was solved at the cross that Jesus Christ bled and died on to forgive the sins of all mankind, then He rose again so that those who believed could live a new life with a new heart (Romans 10:9 - because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved).  The solution comes one person at a time and God wants to use you to help solve the problem by loving your neighbor and sharing this good news about the cross and resurrection of Jesus with them. (Luke 15:10 - "Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”).

So my challenge to you, calm down, put away your phone, have a meal with your loved ones and find someone to have over for dinner and tell them Jesus loves them and wants to be the solution for the sin problem we all have. Tell them your faith story (face to face), laugh with them (face to face), cry with them (face to face), share with them, and pray with them (face to face). If we begin doing this, the world will change one person at a time starting with you and I right in our own homes. This is how the world is changed, person to person, face to face, faith to faith.

Let's have breakfast, dinner, or lunch sometime. Come visit my church Sunday morning at 10 AM CST Fellowship Bible Church of Batesville. Let's talk and pray about what's going on in our lives, this is how disciples of Jesus are made, and how the world is changed.

John 13:34-35

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”