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We're starting today a brand new five-part message series called Hashtag Struggles, following Jesus in a selfie-centered world.

If you're not a regular user of social media, you may be saying, what in the world is a hashtag?

If you're asking that, I want to show you exactly what a hashtag is.

A hashtag looks a lot like a pound symbol that you can use on your phone or your computer.

If you're on Twitter where you type your thoughts to the world in 140 characters or less, and you click on lifethrist.tv hashtag, what you'll do is you'll see what everybody is saying about live search that is used that hashtag.

If you go to Instagram where people upload pictures and you click on the hashtag, cool shoes.

What you'll do is you'll see everybody's awesome kicks. Look how cool my shoes are.

A hashtag is simply a tool to connect with what other people are saying in a similar venue on social media.

What I want to do in this message series is I want to talk to you about five different struggles that interfere with biblical values really as a result of social media.

Now we're going to use social media as a starting point. If you're not on it, these messages will still speak to you.

But I wanted to say up front that I absolutely love and embrace the value of social media. I'm on several different forms.

And we all know who use it that there are so many incredible benefits of social media.

You can connect with people all over the world. It really makes a big world so much smaller.

You can promote things that are important to you. You can push causes forward. There are so many benefits.

At the same time, with all of the great opportunities that technology provides, there are also some unintended downsides or unintended negative consequences of social media and different forms of technology.

What I want to do is raise a few of those issues, contrast the struggles with some biblical values.

And I believe that this is going to be a very powerful message series that will speak to the hearts of so many people today.

So let me tell you what we're going to do today. We're going to talk about contentment.

We're going to look at the problem that when we compare with others, we become dissatisfied and discontinued in our own hearts.

Next week, if you look at your notes, we're going to talk about intimacy.

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