Avoiding Smartphone iDolatry

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 18 May 2015

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Our phones offer us plenty of convenience, but it comes at the price of distraction. Sometimes we need to step back and make sure we control our phones and that they haven’t mastered us.

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0:00.0	This is the track I Love, off Trip Lee's previous album, The Good Life, which is about
0:20.9	to turn 3 years old.
0:23.0	We're back with Trip Lee, Trip.
0:24.5	I Love is a tongue-in-cheek song about your iPhone, and over these years since, what habits
0:30.2	have you put in place to ensure that your phone doesn't take up too much of your life
0:34.1	or distract you from your family or distract you from God in the spiritual disciplines?
0:39.8	Yeah, this is an area.
0:41.8	While I wrote that song, I love, because this was an area that I found as a struggle for
0:46.3	me.
0:47.3	I wrote it as if my iPhone was my girlfriend, and she was constantly grabbing for my
0:54.3	attention.
0:55.3	That was just a very real testimony for me and the way that I was feeling and the fight
0:59.9	I had to put up in order to focus.
1:02.7	It can be hard for me, especially when I'm on a road a lot, which requires lots of sitting
1:07.1	around and waiting.
1:09.1	I've found that I've trained myself in any kind of free time that just grabbed my phone,
1:13.0	and so I really do have to fight about it.
1:15.7	As far as my family life and spiritual disciplines, I don't have really any kind of magic things.
1:22.4	When I read the word and when I pray, I have to leave my phone in another room or put
1:27.7	it on, do not disturb.
1:28.8	I absolutely have to, because I found that I definitely will get distracted.
1:33.0	I'll either it'll vibrate and then I'll run to it, or even the reason why I have to leave
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