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So I took yesterday off to focus on my wife because it was our 8th anniversary, and it was AWESOME! Although I posted a lot on Facebook yesterday – how I've learned marital BLISS because of her, (Beautiful Life Involving Someone Special) – I really can't say enough about my beautiful bride! Check out her blog for a couple photo's of our evening, we start our 9th year together today and it just keeps getting better.
I also started “ground school" yesterday to get ready for the next phase of my flight training syllabus, so I probably won't be posting every day, which will make some posts (like this) more lengthy – sorry!
Anyway, I sent out this message to a few Mighty Men this morning, and I wanted to elaborate on the idea here: “If God wrote a “Facebook post" on “the tablet of your heart" would you click the “like" button? would you comment on it? Would you even read it?"
Anyone who has read my posts before or who has talked to me will understand my perspective on Facebook. As Chris and Kerry Shook say in their book “Love at Last Sight," “technology is neutral, it's how you use it that makes it good or bad."
I've got a friend, however, (& not a Facebook friend) that considers Facebook “the F-word!" I totally respect his opinion and hope he doesn't feel like I'm trying to push him in a direction he doesn't want to go by bringing up topics like this. I only want to offer people the Gospel – not technology – after all, Paul said “we preach Christ, and Him crucified…" However he also believed in being all things to all people to win some, and also said “all things are permissible but not all things are profitable." So refraining from Facebook use is definitely a good course of action for many, and to those I say: Keep it up!
My simple point in posing questions like this is that many people don't read the Bible. Every time I am challenged on the validity or authority of the Bible I ask this question in response: “Have you read the whole thing?" Without exception the answer is “no." The conversation doesn't go very far from there, because the point isn't what everyone else says about the Bible, the point is what IT SAYS. And believe me, I know there are some tough sayings! But you gotta keep reading to understand them – scripture is interpreted with scripture – not by cynical skeptics!
I'm concerned about the growing Biblical illiteracy in the Church today. We send kids to school for 8 hours a day for 12 years and then they go to 4 years of college in some cases. Add it up and you've got about 21,240 hours of instruction by age 22. If the same individual goes to church an hour a week and reads their Bible for 5 minutes a day “like a good Christian," they've spent a mere 1,587.5 hours in the Word. That's 19,652.5 hours less time spent studying the things of God by the time many are starting careers, getting married and having kids!!! How's that working out for us?
I post verses on Facebook and I ask questions like this to encourage Believers to read what God says more than they look at their own posts… Yeah, I do it too: read what I write sometimes without reading what anyone else writes. But you can be sure, I'm getting my daily dose of His Word – especially when you see me share it on Facebook.
Peace,
Adam
Verses to link:
God's Facebook post: Psalm 67:1 80:3, 89.1 and 119:135 (AMP)
“Written on the Tablet" Prov 7:2-3 (NASB)
“click Like": Psalm 119:16
“comment" Psalm 145:5 (KJV)
“even read it" Joshua 1:8 (GNT)
Preach Christ: 1 Cor 1:23
All to all: 1 Cor 9:19-23 – esp. vs22 (NIV)
All permissible: 1Cor 6:12; 10:23 (HCSB)