Jesus and Social Media
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If Jesus were physically present today, would he use social media? |
| 0:05.0 | And if so, to what end? |
| 0:07.0 | What can we learn from the life and teachings of Jesus |
| 0:09.7 | about how to comment on social media well? Given how much I use social media and our culture does these are some pressing |
| 0:16.8 | questions we need to lean into and address. I'm here with my Think Bigly |
| 0:20.9 | co-host Scott Ray who is an ethicist written a lot of books done |
| 0:25.3 | your PhD in this to explore these questions so let's jump right in if Jesus |
| 0:30.6 | were physically present today do you think he might use social media? |
| 0:34.7 | Before I answer that, Sean, let me just a disclaimer out for our audience here. |
| 0:40.0 | You should know that Sean and I have completely different approaches to social media. |
| 0:44.9 | That is true. |
| 0:45.7 | Sure enough. |
| 0:46.4 | He uses it extensively and I think for the most part to good ends. And I don't use it hardly at all because I've seen |
| 0:58.8 | the way people comment on it, I've seen the Christian community, the way they comment on it in ways that I think |
| 1:04.9 | are more reflective of the polarization of the culture. |
| 1:09.5 | And I don't want to be part of that. |
| 1:12.2 | I found that by exposing myself to that and the |
| 1:15.9 | temptation to sort of fight fire with fire on that has done some harm to my soul |
| 1:22.0 | on that. |
| 1:23.0 | And so I have chosen just to be sort of out of, |
| 1:26.7 | I'm out for now, I may change that at some point. |
| 1:31.0 | I should be fair to, my wife is just the opposite okay all right and she |
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