1. it just consumes a lot of my time. i don't think just limiting my time on it would work for me. i mean, that works for some people, that's cool. but i'm just gonna cut it out, and if i do come back, i'd like to do it for the sole purpose of encouragement. not to try to get a date or impress people or gain popularity by having a million friends, but for the sole purpose of connecting with people to encourage them. but in order to do that, i've gotta get away for a while.
2. i don't want to have friends that are just my friends on facebook. i mean the kind of people that i only talk to on facebook and not in real life. i'd rather get calls than messages, i'd rather get calls than wall posts, i'd rather get calls than texts, and i'd rather actually talk to someone in real life than all of those combined. in this crazy 21st century culture we live in we've somewhat lost REAL connections with REAL people. like face to face. and we've lost it to AIM, texts, facebook, myspace, etc. i want something real. and i think the people in this generation want it as well. they just don't know it!
3. i would consider myself faithful to facebook. i check it pretty much everyday. i get emails sent to me with notifications, and i can check them on my phone any second of the day. that's faithful right there. guess what i'm not faithful about? God's word. prayer. hope. faith. i want the faith and the hope that Peter talks about in his first letter, i want to be filled with inexpressible joy!!!!!! facebook can't offer that, but man sometimes i was trying to find my encouragement and happiness through that site.
also, this weekend, i'm gonna turn off my cell phone! i'm gonna let my parents know when i arrive and when i leave, but it's going off. i want my entire attention on what God is doing here and now.
let me just say i have some absolutely AMAZING friends. real ones. that same letter peter wrote says "now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart." that's incredible. and God has placed people in my life that love me like that. i want that kind of love, and i believe everyone does, and i want to offer that kind of love. and i want to offer it face to face!
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i started thinking aobut this like last week. I think it was one of the chapel speakers who was talking about friends and having true friends. Sad to say I've got like almost 700 faceobok friends, but not that many real friends. Great words Chris. Something i'll be thinking about and trying to put into practice. Not consuming my life with antisocial habbits..like this comment but rather calling people and talking to them face to face.
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