Sunday, March 22, 2009
Facebook fast
So...fasting from facebook huh? Did you learn anything...I did. I realized that I use facebook as a time filler in my life. Instead of taking time to spend with Jesus, I get on facebook. I feel like I'm missing something if I'm not on. I realized that I need to be more productive in the time I have and use that time to grow in my relationship with Jesus...after all isn't that all that really matters? What did you learn?
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Branden,
Totally agree. I couldn't believe how much free time I ended up with, time that I could be using to read my Bible or spend with friends and family. Definitely learned a lot from the facebook fast.
Being the "old" person that I am, it amazes me how people use Facebook to avoid a phone conversation or, heaven forbid, getting together with loved ones. I think Facebook is good for connecting with, say, old classmates who are scattered but to connect with people who live within 15 miles of you -- wow!
I am just curious as to what you mean by "spend time with Jesus"? Why can't you be spending time with Jesus even while on facebook? Are those mutually exclusive activities?
For me, it is. Can you spend quality time with someone you love and be focusing on all of your time on facebook? no? Is God everywhere? Yes, but I need to take time out of my day for contemplation, focus, and to read scripture. Does that make sense?
Well, though not fundamentally different, I would say that spending time with God is different than spending time with another human. Given this difference, I do not see doing regular things, like facebook even, as not spending time with God. One can do everything with God.
But perhaps you mean that a certain kind of time needs to be spent with God? That is, a time when one's attention and focus is especially directed toward God?
What, then, should this look like? Does it have to be reading the Bible or can it be other activities? I hear Christians say a lot that we need to "spend time" with God, but I never really know what they mean by that. Often times this seems like a nebulous concept. What constitutes spending time with God and what does not?
well for thousands of years Christians have used prayer, meditation, different forms of scripture reading, and solitude as a way of "connecting" with God. Do I think that one needs to have a "quiet time" every day? No, but I think we need to take some time to do the above things...
Would you consider something like having this dialogue as spending time with God?
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