Raising Up the Next Generation

S1, E21...Our Phone's Affect on Our Relationship with Jesus with Dan McPherson

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Today's episode is a little different as it is not an interview but a message from me, your host, Dan McPherson! This comes from a sermon I preached in the summer of 2021 and as we enter 2023 I thought this was a helpful reminder as we engage with God and with people in the new year. Below is the outline and links to resources I pulled from. 

Episode Outline:

A relationship with Jesus

  • Worshiping God
  • Engaging in discipleship/community
  • Living missionally, both locally and globally

    • How our phone affects our time/relationship with God

    • Constant work and availability
    • Constant distraction
    • Constant news
    • Stimulates misdirected love
    • Encourages pleasing the wrong people

      • How our phone affects our time/relationship with others

      • Relational disconnectedness
      • Relational divisiveness

        • Positive effects of phones

        • Spiritually enriching podcasts, music, and teaching
        • Spiritually helpful apps
        • Connecting apps
        • Mobile giving

          • Practical tips for digital discipleship

          • Embrace boredom
          • Get outside
          • Turn your smartphone into a dumb phone
          • Delete or limit social media & news intake
          • Put your phone away during conversations
          • No phone in your bedroom, at meals, with friends, date night, or family night

            • Resources Used for the Episode:

            • 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Reinke
            • Digital Minimalism by Newport
            • Get Your Life Back by Eldredge
            • Liturgy of the Ordinary by Warren
            • Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by Comer
            • The Tech-Wise Family by Crouch
            • Reclaiming Conversation by Turkle

              • Music: Jordan Robson with Zeke Friedeman

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