Episode 2: On Pastoring in the Age of Social Media

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A mere ten years ago, social media didn’t exist. Now it’s everywhere. Jonathan Leeman sits down with Mark Dever to chat about the difficulties of pastoring in the age of social media.

SHOW NOTES:

– What are some of the dangers you see intrinsic to social media? (2:45)

– How social media can tempt Christians to add to the gospel (4:30).

– The necessity of humility in our opinions and our discourse (5:30).

– How Christians can become good self-editors? 12 diagnostic questions to continually ask ourselves. (8:00)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Mark, you've been a pastor for a little over 20, well, this church for a little over 20 years
0:07.8	longer than that, I understand.
0:09.8	When you started 20 years ago at this present church, there was no such thing as social
0:14.8	media.
0:16.4	And now there is.
0:19.8	How has that affected your pastoring?
0:23.1	Well, there was social media.
0:24.9	There was the correspondence page and the local newspaper.
0:27.5	There was gossip.
0:28.3	I mean, there were social media.
0:29.4	Social media is available.
0:30.6	Yes, that's true.
0:31.3	But they were less immediately available to his larger group than what we know in Facebook and Twitter and blogs.
0:39.9	Now, about a month or so ago, you took a little tangent side street in the middle of your sermon.
0:45.9	Second John. He was talking about how he was going to write to the people.
0:50.1	Right. And he's decided some things are better face to face.
0:53.0	And you end up saying 12 questions
0:55.0	to ask yourself before posting something online. Yeah, which I wouldn't say is a straight,
0:59.5	careful exposition of the central point of that verse in 2nd John. But an implication, application.
1:07.8	It was an application that I, as the pastor of this dear congregation, felt was helpful.
1:14.3	Well, in a couple of weeks after that, we had an elder give a Sunday night address talking about unity in the church.
1:20.6	And he spent a lot of his time also on the topic of social media.
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