Strategy for Social Media

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Social media often draws out division and gossip — but it doesn’t have to. Christians can use their platforms to encourage and sustain.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome back to Ask Pastor John.
0:06.4	I trust your celebration of the Resurrection of Christ was wonderful this weekend.
0:11.6	And today and tomorrow we're joined again by author and pastor Ray Orland.
0:15.7	Ray in your excellent commentary on Proverbs, you wrote this quote, Twitter and blogs
0:20.6	and emails would be cleared of much conflict if we humbled our opinions before Christ.
0:26.3	What are we here for really?
0:28.4	What does God want to be stirred up in our hearts?
0:31.4	He says, stir one another up to love and good deeds.
0:35.0	Hebrews 10, 24, end quote.
0:37.4	Now you're online, so explain the connection and how this works for you in deciding what
0:42.3	to post on social media and to Facebook.
0:45.5	Right, I think of Facebook, it's not really a website, it's a landmine brilliantly disguised
0:54.7	as a website.
0:56.0	So I got out of Facebook last summer and I didn't just deactivate my account, I deleted
1:01.2	it because I found that for me personally, it started to take too much time, I found
1:08.8	it just got me riled up at times in ways I don't want.
1:12.4	It's not hard to find political stupidity, it's not hard to find reasons to get angry
1:17.2	over developments in our culture and so forth.
1:20.7	And there was too much there that was counteracting my desire to walk with the Lord.
1:25.8	So I bailed out, I still use, I have a blog at the Gospel Coalition, I do use Twitter
1:32.8	and I do use Instagram, those are more controlled environments online and I can still pursue my
1:39.3	purposes more easily there.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Desiring God, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Desiring God and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.