In this episode we discuss...

• our five points on the rural pastor and social media!
• CAVEAT: social media can be a blessing to disseminate a biblical, God glorifying message. We obviously use different platforms for the podcast, but we caution why, how, and when they are used.
  
  
  1. Social Media can be a CESSPOOL.
     • 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
     • It seems as if we have enough trouble working on personal holiness and living blameless lives in the real world! Why launch yourself blindly into a world with far more opportunities for sin and far fewer natural and logical consequences. 
  2. Social Media can be a PEEP SHOW.
     • 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
     • Not only for highly charged sexual immorality.
     • It seems like everybody has an agenda and is highly trained at getting clicks. 
     • Why do you want to dive into someplace where so many people are rewarded specifically for getting you to react?
  3. Social Media can be more of a CAGE MATCH.
     • 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
     • It provides horrible context for brotherly love.
  4. Social media can be worse than the sin the CROUCHES AT YOUR DOOR.
     • 1 Thessalonians 4:11
     • It’s in your pocket! It can be a great temptation against living quietly and minding our own affairs.
  5. Social media can be a MAGNIFYING GLASS.
     • 1 Thessalonians 4:12
     • You better watch every step if you are going to walk properly before outsiders, because they are watching you! 

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  • Shai Linne's Lyrical Theology pt. I & II
  • Timothy Brindle's The Unfolding
  • Chrys Jones' Whose Lives Matter?
  • Beautiful Eulogy's Worthy

Our Quote of the Day:

• “Our preaching is not the reason the Word works, the Word is the reason our preaching works!” H.B. Charles

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