S1 | E6: How to Glorify God on Social Media

11/12/20 • 47 min

Our modern life is filled with questions about how to live at an optimal level. What are our best practices for our environment? Our planet? What about our own bodies? How do we achieve mental health, physical strength, and longevity? Social media needs to be part of this line of questioning. How should it be used? Can we find ways to utilize the platform to serve actual good?
Things to Consider

All of life: a contest 5:22
The right question to ask 7:58
Social media conforms to scripture 9:14
Principles
Social media usage can be rewarded by Christ 9:45
Social media usage should have a tight focus 16:38
Social media usage should promote unity amongst God's people 23:25
Social media usage should edify God's people 26:50
Social Media usage should share the gospel 28:25
Practices
Make posts that invite people to real human interaction 11:24
Make posts that support real gospel work happening around the world 14:00
Make posts that promote scripture and spiritual growth resources 17:47
Consider Jesus and His specific purposes before posting 21:32
Take ten minutes to meditate on whatever you're about to post 22:24
Survey your last ten posts 30:35
Best practices for viewing 31:45
Scriptures
See 1 Corinthians 9v23-27
2 Timothy 4v7-8
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
1 Corinthians 3v12-13
Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.
See John 17
James 3v18
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Hebrews 12v14
Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord
Romans 14v19
Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.
1 Thessalonians 5v11
Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.
1 Corinthians 10v23
All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.
Romans 15v2
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.
Ephesians 5v15-16
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Psalm 90v12
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Matthew 5v30
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
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S1 | E5: Social Media and Social Action

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There is no denying that social media has officially been interwoven into social action over the years. Some say they're officially inseparable. But is that true? Today we talk about what really happens, according to the Bible, when social media is integrated with social issues.
Positive Aspects
Speed of Information 6:01
Stirring up Strong Feelings 8:37
Make Many Voices One 10:05
Give a Voice to People Typically Shut Out 10:50
Negative Aspects
Privileging the Image Over the Word 17:17
Tendency to Eliminate Careful Discussion, Thinking, or Reasoning 21:01
Completely Overrun by Sin 25:26
Tendency Toward Mob Mentality 31:33
Privileging the Most Fired Up Voices 35:12
Portraying Power and Money as a Grassroots Movement 47:35
Scriptures
Psalm 1v1-2
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.
See Acts 19
Acts 19v32
Some therefore cried one thing and some another, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.
See Matthew 12v14-21
Mark 3v5
And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
See Isaiah 42v1-4
2 Corinthians 11v28
besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.
See Isaiah 53
1 Corinthians 1v18-20
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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