Thinking wisely about technology on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people

face. And this week on the podcast we have with us, John Lehman, who's a pastor of member care

and missions at Hampton Park Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He also serves not only

his church there in member care, but he serves with ACBC as a member and a fellow.

And we're so grateful for John and his ministry there.

He and his wife, Susie, have four married children and eight grandchildren.

So we're so thankful for John and his ministry there at Hampton Park in the way in which he serves us as well. Well,

this week, Taryn to Fever's, our communications coordinator was able to sit down with John

and to discuss this often very difficult and dicey issue of technology. How do we use it? How do we

employ it? Is this a good thing? Is it a blessing or a curse? Is it a raging beast or can it be tamed? We have these

questions all the time about technology. Is it useful for good or is it something that only tears down?

John's going to help us to understand this from a biblical perspective and to think about this

subject wisely. So, Taryn, thank you for sitting down with John and helping us listen in on this.

Today we're going to talk about technology and whether technology is a raging or tamed beast.

And with me, I have John Lehman, and we're so glad that you are here.

Thank you very much. And if I can, I'll just expound on why that title came about.

I've, of course, been familiar with farming, been familiar with cowboys, and a stallion who's broken

is very valuable, but a stallion that is not tamed is worthless.

And therefore I thought that idea with our technology, our phones, our iPods, iPads, whatever we have,

if we don't control them, they're really dangerous.

But if we control them, they're really valuable.

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