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Welcome to day two, all of our churches.

We're in part four of a five-part message series called Hashtag Struggles.

We're talking about how do we follow Jesus in this selfie-centered world.

Next week we're going to wrap up this message series talking about how do we rediscover rest and solitude.

The studies are absolutely stunning when we see just how addicted we are to technology.

And I believe next week's message will be very, very powerful for a lot of you as the study has been for me.

Today I want to talk about resurrecting compassion.

How does social media and technology propel a spirit of compassion and how might it hinder compassion.

The ways that social media can really help us make a difference in this world.

There are so many different ways when you think about it.

We can now raise awareness for different ministries, organizations, all sorts of different things we can raise money.

There can be things that nobody was talking about before that everybody is talking about now.

Overnight something can become very, very popular and known and then also overnight people can also stop talking about it.

Just some examples many of you will remember.

Overnight, Coney became kind of like an obsession of many people.

It's all that anybody would talk about then.

I guess the producer fell on some personal challenges and then that whole thing just went away.

200 Nigerian schoolgirls were missing and it captures the heart of the world.

Everybody's talking about it on social media and other places.

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