How Are Screens Influencing Us?
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Authors David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock talk about the challenges youth face spiritually as they navigate all the opposing views and opinions of the spiritual Babylon we're living in. Kinnaman, who has been with Barna Research Group for 25 years, explains that the gap between Christians and non-Christians is growing, and our youth face a large chasm from which to interpret their faith. With the constant drizzle of news and information, they are feeling more anxiety and fear. Together Kinnaman and Matlock explain how parents can help their children use technology wisely.
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| 0:00.5 | The digital revolution that we're living through |
| 0:04.8 | is reshaping how all of us are being discipled. |
| 0:09.5 | Mark Matlock says that's especially true |
| 0:12.6 | for teenagers and young adults. |
| 0:16.0 | When we look at the typical screen time |
| 0:19.3 | that a 15 to 23 year olds experiencing, |
| 0:22.2 | it's about 2,767 hours a year. |
| 0:26.2 | Now we ask them and try to look at |
| 0:28.2 | how much spiritual content they're taking in, |
| 0:31.0 | the average teenagers taking about 153 hours |
| 0:33.5 | of spiritual content. |
| 0:35.3 | When we look at the typical church go, |
| 0:36.7 | we're just a little under 300 hours. |
| 0:38.5 | So now if somebody else has discipled him, |
| 0:41.4 | my job is I have to unpack all of that. |
| 0:44.4 | And what we need to understand is parents is that |
| 0:46.7 | just because we see our kids doing some of the same things |
| 0:49.5 | that we did, attending church, |
| 0:51.4 | raising your hands and worship, |
| 0:53.1 | going to summer camp, participating in mission trips, |
| 0:56.2 | what's going on inside the interior world |
| 0:59.5 | can be really different because they've got |
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