Social Media Heart Check Eryn Hall Ep 197
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
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🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Staying up-to-date on social media can so easily turn into an hour of lost time scrolling on our phones that leaves us discontent and disconnected with the ones we love the most. It’s a struggle most of us deal with in this digital age we’re in, and I’ve brought in my friend Eryn Hall to give us practical tips and encouragement on how to do social media well.
My highlight reel is going to look different than someone else’s highlight reel and that’s how it should be. We need to accept that and rest in the Lord. The grace and goodness I have and my acceptance, my identity is found in him and not in someone else’s social media.
If limiting your own screen time is something you struggle with, check out the apps in the show notes below to start monitoring your time. Ask a friend or GCM podcast club member to check in with you for accountability. Let’s live our lives for God and for our families first, not just for the social media posts.
What we chat about:- How to do social media from a Godly worldview
- Recognizing how social media makes us feel and doing a heart check
- Learning to rest in God’s approval and not in the approval of social media
- Stepping away and asking God, “Is this for me?” before responding to a place of potential jealousy
- Paying attention to whether we are finding our identity in God or in social media
- Boundaries we’ve put in place on social media
- Not looking at social media first thing in the morning and starting our day off in prayer so we are secure in who God says we are
- Healthy switches for spending your time on something other than social media
- Staying present with your kids with boundaries on your device usage
- Not immediately posting a picture of an event or activity and checking your “why” behind the photos and posts
- Be sure of who you are and whose you are before you post
- A cool story about how someone came to Jesus after reading God’s word on social media
- Being digital evangelists and staying faithful to the message of who God is
- Moment App for iPhone
- Quality Time App for Android
- Declare Conference
- Liz Griffin Instagram
- Joy is on the Other Side of the Screen (post Eryn mentioned she wrote)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all welcome back to the God Center Mom podcast. I am your host Heather McFadian and |
| 0:08.5 | this is the place where we remind you through mentorship, friendship and discipleship that |
| 0:12.6 | you don't mom alone. This is episode 197. I've invited my friend Aaron Hall to answer |
| 0:19.4 | one of your questions. Okay so my name is Jennifer and I'm a mom to seven kiddos. I've got |
| 0:26.9 | five boys and two girls. Actually my last pregnancy was triplets and so I have three three-year-old |
| 0:34.8 | boys and my life is crazy. My question is about social media. I want to be you know to have a |
| 0:43.9 | presence on social media and be connected with people and but I really stink at it and I stink |
| 0:51.3 | in sinful ways and in just silly time wasting ways. So I get real self-focused and I just hate it. |
| 1:00.8 | I don't like what it brings out but I know there's so much good there so I would really love to hear |
| 1:06.8 | how other moms deal with social media to keep it as a blessing in their life instead of |
| 1:13.9 | a stumbling block or you know a way to just be distracted. I don't want to be distracted. I want |
| 1:20.7 | to be engaged in my life so yeah that's my question. How do we be God-centered moms and have healthy |
| 1:29.7 | boundaries with social media? I'm sure Jennifer is not the only one who is struggling with the |
| 1:35.8 | distraction and the temptations of social media and wondering how do we balance this? How do we |
| 1:42.8 | engage and have a presence and connect and use it as a tool of ministry and not let it become a |
| 1:48.6 | stumbling block? Well when I heard Jennifer's question I immediately thought of my good friend |
| 1:53.1 | Erin Hall. She and I have served together in coordinating the declare conference which she is still |
| 1:59.5 | doing. She has written online for over a decade and she just does things well. She keeps the main |
| 2:06.8 | thing the main thing and I wanted you to hear from her. And it's just reminding myself like I don't |
| 2:12.6 | need to be available to everyone all the time except to my family and my people that are right here. |
| 2:17.3 | Like those are the people that need me at a moment's notice and I need to be available to them. |
| 2:22.4 | Everyone else can wait and remember when we didn't have phones and we would have to check |
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