Thoughts on Communicating the Gospel using technology
As I was reflecting on some technology that was developed this past year, I am continually amazed and interested in what has been introduced to us. I remember watching Star Trek with my dad. He talked about how he always thought it would be so cool to have a flip communicator like they did. It would be so cool to just flip something like that open and be able to communicate with anyone. As a kid, I’m sure he never dreamed it would be possible to communicate with anyone like that. Now, people have “flip communicators” and even more advanced communicators called cell phones! I can slide my finger across the heat-sensitive touch screen of my iPhone and have virtually anyone literally at my fingertips. I can call someone across the room, across town, or across the world. I remember using my cell phone to call home from Liberia, Africa while I was away on a missions trip a few years ago. I pressed a few buttons and then seconds later, I could hear the voices of my parents and hear dinner cooking in the background from almost half way around the world. What we never dreamed possible, has become so commonplace to us that it does not even faze us. It has changed the face of communication today.
The face of communication is constantly changing largely due to technology and its development and re-development. We are pushed forward whether we like it or not. Some people enjoy it and thrive on it; some people don’t like it; some people don’t really care. But anyway you look at it, we are in the midst of a new culture that is being changed and influenced by the current technologies
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The church is being forced to take note of these changes and change how they communicate in order to reach the culture that they are a part of. It would be easy for the body to just fall back on what they know and point out how the Bible talks about not conform to what the world is saying and doing. But maybe the church needs not be so defensive and realize that it’s not about that. God is alive and His word in the Bible is alive. This means that the Bible’s principles of standards and ethics need to be applied to the life that we live and in the culture we are a part of
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