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Issues, Etc.

1711. Media Coverage of Children, Smart Phones and Social Media – Terry Mattingly, 6/19/24

Issues, Etc.

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Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Terry Mattingly of Rational Sheep Rational Sheep Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture GetReligion.org

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The an email to Lynn at issues ETC.org and we'll let you know if space becomes available.

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Making the case Friday, July 12th and Saturday July 13th at Concordia University Chicago, Lynn at issues ETC.org L Y N at issues ETC.org.

0:27.0

The bottom line is that Americans are having more difficulty I think finding love

0:38.3

getting married and having children. Everybody kind of has this mentality

0:42.1

right now where I call it Tik-Tok theology, where someone can

0:45.5

take 20 seconds to quote-unquote debunk some kind of aspect of historic Christianity, and

0:51.1

because we've been trained to have such short attention spans we just move on

0:54.9

and then sort of just absorb that and it becomes part of what we think is true

0:58.8

resist that.

0:59.8

Religious liberty is a whole you can't have it just one day a week.

1:04.4

If you don't have it on Monday morning, then you don't have it on Sunday morning either.

1:09.0

And there will come a time when what is prohibited in the workplace will eventually be prohibited in the

1:15.8

sacred realm in the church as well.

1:18.4

To accept the Gospel as an expression of divine love setting aside the elements of the vicarious

1:25.5

satisfaction the authority for Christians in their life of the Ten

1:30.0

Commandments the concrete doctrines of Holy Scripture, and setting these things aside, Christianity

1:36.6

evaporates under a vague concept of love and reconciliation.

1:41.2

Florida, truck drivers, drivers love issues etc.

1:44.1

We know there's something wrong because the ill effects of that appendage that we call the smartphone, especially among the young,

1:57.0

but also among the old two, are undeniable. It has changed the way we think, maybe even rewired our brains and the dangers online of course are abundant and multifaceted.

2:10.0

So are some people catching on and should the church have anything to say about cell phones,

2:16.6

smart phones in the hands of children?

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