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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 180 - How Social Media Can Change Us and What to Do About It

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ever thought about how social media is influencing you and your spiritual life? Join E.Z. and Oscar in an engaging conversation with esteemed guest, Nathan W. Bingham, Vice President of Ministry Engagement for Ligonier Ministries, on the perks and pitfalls of social media. They share personal tales from the heartwarming to the hilarious, all while discussing the evolving role of social media and its impact on community, worship, and spiritual growth. Social media has changed the way we inter...

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Now, obviously we know on the social media realm, there are negative elements we've been

0:05.7

touching on that.

0:06.8

Can you highlight some of the positive ones, right?

0:08.9

I mean, this is a part of your livelihood and what you do.

0:11.7

It's a part of what we do as a ministry as well, but how are some of the ways that Christians

0:15.8

can steward social media from the positive standpoint?

0:19.4

Can I mention one more negative before we go to the positive?

0:21.9

Is that okay?

0:22.9

You can mention ten more negatives.

0:23.9

You know what?

0:24.9

Well, once we go to the positive side and I want to bring the conversation down by getting

0:27.9

negative again.

0:29.9

And there are a number of negatives and we've thought about these things as articles

0:33.1

online, people are talking about this often.

0:35.2

But one thing that really concerns me particularly post-2020 is that we're seeing the erosion

0:41.0

of community and when church went online and people were watching livestreams, the accelerated

0:49.1

pace of people adopting digital technology, audiobooks, podcasts, all of this sort of thing,

0:55.6

this upcoming generation doesn't have an appreciation for in person embodied community

1:01.8

worship and we're cold, not to neglect the gathering together of the saints.

1:06.3

And there are many, many people that when they think about what a local church is, they

1:10.4

don't see the distinction between online church, virtual church and embodied worship with

1:16.1

a group of people where they're apostas that know your name, who will give an account

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