Making Your Phone a Blessing, Not a Curse
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever stopped to consider whether your phone is drawing you closer to God or distracting you from Him? In his message, JP tackled this question, showing how technology has the power to be either a tool for spiritual growth or a stumbling block in our lives. Drawing from the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis, JP challenged us to set intentional boundaries, eliminate distractions, and embrace accountability so that our devices become tools for glorifying God and strengthening relationships, rather than turning into modern-day idols.
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Life Group Discussion:
What specific times or situations in your day would benefit most from being phone-free?
What’s one small step you could take this week to declutter your digital life?
Who in your life could you trust to keep you accountable for how you use technology?
What are some ways you could use technology to build up the people around you instead of distracting from them?
Who’s one person you haven’t checked in with recently that you could reach out to this week?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I'm curious. How many of you guys know who this is? |
| 0:05.5 | Don't say it. Don't say it. |
| 0:07.9 | Just if you know who it is, if you're here in a millennial and want to feel very old, watch this. |
| 0:17.1 | How many of you have no idea who that is? Raise your hand. |
| 0:25.8 | Okay. And so millennials tell them who that is. |
| 0:32.0 | Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell, and that is Zach's brick phone. |
| 0:39.2 | Zach was the coolest guy in school for many reasons, but one of them was because he was the only kid in his school, |
| 0:44.9 | in his high school, with a phone. And Saved by the Bell is my favorite show. I watched every episode, and I can remember sitting there thinking what I could do if I had that phone, |
| 0:51.2 | like all of the endless possibilities if I had that phone. |
| 0:55.2 | And what happened is my brother actually got that phone. |
| 0:58.5 | He was an early adopter. |
| 1:00.0 | He had the brick phone. |
| 1:01.9 | And so the first thing that I did when he let me borrow it is I skipped school. |
| 1:06.3 | I had a friend, a female friend, write a note. |
| 1:09.9 | She had pretty handwriting, write a note from my mom, |
| 1:12.0 | I'm saying in air quotes. And it just said, Jonathan wasn't feeling well this morning. And if he gets |
| 1:18.7 | worse, he has our permission to go home. And if you need to call me, here's my number. And that number |
| 1:23.8 | was my brother's brick phone number. I had another female friend holding that phone |
| 1:28.6 | pretending to be my mom. It was a flawless plan. There was no way I was getting caught except for |
| 1:33.1 | when I gave Miss Kinney, the attendance woman, the note. She compared it to my other notes, |
| 1:39.1 | and I got busted. And so this is a great example of technology. Like you can use it for good or you can use it for bad. |
| 1:46.3 | I had that, as soon as I got access to that phone, I used it for bad, right? This is how this works. |
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