Well I'm so thankful to have all of you with us today at all of our churches and as you might imagine

I'm very excited and passionate about the impact I believe my new book is going to have.

It's called Hashtag Struggles following Jesus in a selfie-centered world.

And we really talk about how to be passionate about Jesus in a world where technology seems to be taking over.

Now we all love technology.

I love social media. Our church is crazy, past it, about leveraging technology to make a difference in this world.

The church online, the free U-Virgin Bible app, and so much more.

So while we can all embrace the benefits of social media and technology,

we also have to recognize that there could be some unintended negative consequences as well.

So today I want to show you a message I believe will really interest and minister to you,

but we're going to do it in a bit of a different format.

I want to start with the clip talking about how social media and technology is changing relationships.

How is technology changing relationships?

The first thing if you're taking notes is the term friend is evolving.

The term friend is evolving. For example, a friend used to mean somebody that you did life with.

We were together doing life.

Now a friend can be somebody that you've never met in person that follows what you say on Facebook.

And so the term friend is evolving.

For example, the average American Facebook user has 328 Facebook friends.

But the average American says they only have two close friends,

which is down from six two decades ago, and yet 25% of Americans say they have zero

close friends. So the tension is real.

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