How Might Jesus Have us Engage Social Media?

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Social media has become perhaps the largest universal communication platform for sharing new information, ideas, current events, discussion and, also sadly has become a forum for unhealthy conflict. Pete shares thoughts based the Sermon on the Mount, how Jesus might have asked us to engage in social media. Listen and ponder how might Jesus be asking you to engage in your social media circle.

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0:00.7	Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:03.2	Great to be with you today.
0:04.6	My name is Pete Scazzaro, and our theme today is how might Jesus have us engage social media?
0:11.0	How might Jesus have us engage social media?
0:13.9	Will the Apostle Paul have been on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat, YouTube, with the message of Jesus, I believe absolutely
0:24.7	he would have been. He utilized what was known as the Pax Romana in the Greco-Roman world of his
0:32.2	day, which is a Roman peace, the roads, the culture, the language. He was very adept, actually, at taking the culture and using it to bring Christ to the world.
0:40.3	So, you know, if Jesus was here and giving us a few tips, like, okay, hey, here's some recommendations about as you engage in social media
0:48.3	that I would recommend to you.
0:50.3	And I got a, I got a list 10 here.
0:53.3	You could probably add a few.
0:54.9	I just added one just now.
0:55.8	I just thought of it.
0:56.6	Number one is remember, this is addictive.
0:58.5	And, you know, you've got to contain it.
1:00.6	But, all right, let me go one, let me go one to 10 here, okay?
1:02.4	Number one, be careful not to show off a pretend.
1:06.1	You know, pretending is the word for hypocrisy, pretending to be something we're not, or presenting an
1:13.3	idealized version of ourselves, that's not true. And Jesus is very clear in a sermon on
1:18.9	the Mount, Matthew 6, not to show off, not to be spectacular to call attention to ourselves.
1:25.4	So you want to, oh, again, number one, you want to check out,
1:28.0	am I showing off right here or pretending to be somebody? I'm not. Okay. And again, it means you're
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