It is most often the things we're created to find the greatest pleasure in--that become our greatest places of bondage instead.  Think about food and sex--and social media.

Social media offers to meet our God-given need for connection and belonging. So why does it seem like we can never get enough?  How can something we were meant to enjoy, all of a sudden seem like a trap?  or like an addiction we didn't see coming?

Join us in this episode, and listen with a pencil in your hand so you can write down five short questions to ask yourself about your social media attraction.  These questions can be helpful in a conversation with your child, too, as they begin to navigate the social media scene.

These five questions are our gift to you in this episode, along with these three TAKE AWAYS:

• What we love or what we fear will grab our attention and require our time and energy and resources--and what we spend our time on will shape our convictions--and stir our emotions.
• A love of freedom is learned in an environment of freedom.  Freedom invites us to discover many loves--and live pursuing what we love.  Addictions convict us with shame--and invite us to live with a need for power, or with a chronic case of apathy.
• Fear sets no boundaries.  Love does.  Fear will bully you if you have boundaries.  Fear wants to make you feel guilty for setting limits on your integrity.  Love casts out fear.  Learn to set boundaries to protect yourself from anything that's not for you.

Follow this link to listen now--or subscribe on your favorite podcast provider.  Thank you for sharing this episode with your best friend, or your small group.  Together, there is great hope.

 

We mention these resources in this episode:

The Cure & Parents https://smile.amazon.com/The-Cure-Parents/dp/B01M63E02N/

Lisa Leonard https://smile.amazon.com/Brave-Love-Making-Space-You/dp/B07FSYYN8T/and https://www.lisaleonard.com/

John 15 Academy https://john15academy.com