TS&TT: Using Social Media As Christians

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden talk about how we should engage on social media as Christians. What are some principles we should apply and boundaries we should set? Is social media worth using as a Christian or would we be better off without it? SHOW NOTES: 2025 National Founders Conference: Revive Us, O Lord!: https://founders.org/conference PRE-ORDER Spurgeon’s Forgotten Sabbatarianism: https://press.founders.org/shop/spurgeons-forgotten-sabbatarianism/ PRE-ORDER A Revolutionary Reading of Romans 13 : https://press.founders.org/shop/a-revolutionary-reading-of-romans-13/ Find out more about The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org Support Founders Ministries and become a part of the F.A.M: https://press.founders.org/fam/ Founders Church Search: https://church.founders.org Founders Sermon Podcast Stream: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sermons-by-founders-ministries/id1613963681 Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining us today on the Sword and Trial.
0:01.8	Today, Graham and I talk about how we ought to engage on social media.
0:07.4	Graham has been very wise in ways that I have not on social media.
0:11.5	He talks about that.
0:12.6	And then we just try to talk through some principles and some wisdom that God's given to us as Christians.
0:18.7	We still must remember Jesus Christ, even when we sit down to hammer out a post on
0:26.0	X or on Facebook or on Instagram. So join us today for this conversation.
0:36.1	Welcome to the Sword and Trial.
0:39.7	The Sword and Trial is a podcast of Founders Ministries and Founders
0:42.3	Exists for the Recovery of the Gospel and the Reformation of Local Churches.
0:45.9	I'm Tom Askell.
0:46.8	And I'm Graham Gundin.
0:47.8	And we're delighted to have you join us today because we're going to talk about just the
0:53.3	way of social media, how to engage in
0:56.2	social media or how we ought to engage in social media.
0:59.6	The basic premise that I want to operate off of is you don't get to quit being a Christian
1:06.6	when you jump on X or Facebook or whatever your platform of choice is.
1:13.1	And Graham, tell us how you engage X.
1:16.9	I think that I'm an authority on this issue because I don't think all day on X.
1:23.8	I don't think anyone does X better than I do because I'm not on it. You X'd X.
1:29.8	Yeah. You canceled X. I've been off, I don't know, maybe a year and a half or so. And it was a great
1:36.0	decision that I made. Tell us why, what led you to it and why have you deemed it to be a great decision.
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