Christians Engaging the World through Social Media

Engaging the World through Social Media

Bartley Christian Church, SingaporeDarren Choo @bluefirefly2359

Engaging the World through Social Media

• Unmasking and redeeming the effects of social media• Inhibit Intimacy with friends• Empty Empathy with others• Fan the Flames of Fame

• Engaging the world on social media for Christ

1 Cor 6:12 Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me].

What does the Bible has to say about social media?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Inhibit intimacy with friends

What’s the effect of social media?

“What do you mean you don’t know? I posted on Facebook”

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Inhibit intimacy with friends

“Just text me”

2 John 1:12 Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

What does the Bible has to say about social media?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Inhibit intimacy with friends

Proverbs 18:24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

http://community.lithium.com/t5/Science-of-Social-blog/Can-Social-Technologies-Increase-Our-Dunbar-Limit/ba-p/13694

What does the Bible has to say about social media?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Inhibit intimacy with friends

What’s the effect of spending all your time on your smartphone like social media?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Empty empathy with others

What’s the effect of spending all your time on your smartphone like social media?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Empty empathy with others

Ephesians 5:16  Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

What’s the effect of spending all your time on your smartphone like social media?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Empty empathy with others

Why is empathy so important?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Empty empathy with others

John 11:33-35 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept.

What does the Bible has to say about Empathy?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Empty empathy with others

Look up, day dream, meditate on God, develop empathy and love!

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Empty empathy with others

What’s the effect of social media on the teenage brain?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Fan the flames of Fame

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Inhibit intimacy with friends

What’s the effect of social media?

2 Timothy 3:1-7 But understand this, that in the last days… For people will be lovers of self, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God

What does the Bible has to say about this?

Selfies

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Fan the flames of Fame

Luke 20:46-47 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

What does the Bible has to say about fame?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Fan the flames of Fame

Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

What does the Bible has to say about fame?

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives - Fan the flames of Fame

Unmasking the effects of social media on our spiritual lives

• Inhibit intimacy with friends• Beware of social media replacing

deep relationships with superficial relationships

• Empty empathy with others• Beware of social media stealing

your time in developing empathy and relationship with God

• Fan the flames of Fame• Beware of social media seducing

you to glorifying self and not on glorifying God

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

• Be Christlike Online & Offline• Build Bridges not Fences• Share Share not Shy Shy

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Luke 6:45 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks

Be Christlike Online

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Be Christlike Offline

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

Build Bridges not Fences

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Share Share not Shy Shy

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Share Share not Shy Shy

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Share Share not Shy Shy

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Some corporate ideas for you to engage the world

• Official accounts for your youth service eg Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter• Start #sgchristian for post-sermon

learnings or mid week reflections to start a movement of sharing • Create nice sharable pictorial

sayings using eg InstaQuote for all of you to share the gospel wisdom

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Engaging the world on social media for Christ

Ask me or Tweet me your questions! @bluefirefly2359