sermonindex wrote:It is not as much stopping something or getting off something but rather "using" our life's for something much better. If we just stop watching tv, stop this and that there is no virtue in that! But if we begin to serve God with all our hearts and put our hands to the plow. If we start to be obedient Christians then that is virtuous and what brother Paul Washer is calling for.
_________________Dawn
Facebook is a social medium.. people use it to keep up with each other. I see it as something that can be abused, that can become your master.. but it doesn't have to. I don't get much involved with it, but it nonetheless can be useful for keeping in touch with people. I wouldn't have found out about the Poonen conference in PA, for example, without having been notified on Facebook about an event, and many others found out about it through there.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/muslim.hackers.disrupt.christian.facebook.page/22758.htm
Facebook can be either good or bad, like money can be good or bad. It depends upon the user, and their heart.I struggled for months, and finally joined Facebook to satisfy a sister who wanted to stay in touch, and who is a stay-at-home Mom and has the time to be on the computer. She has regained contact with cousins, and other family members because she has Facebook.Once I joined, I realized that I can use this medium as a tool.There are drawbacks, and things to be cautious of, as with anything else on the Internet.It is (according to many in the conspiracy theory camp) a tool used for spying by the CIA, and other government organizations. Facebook can keep all your data you upload or put on your site, forever, even after you close your account, or whether or not you have deleted the info.Consider it "publishing," without any form of copyright, every time you post something. It is available to the world immediately, and to the government forever, even if you delete, or shut down your account.If you are ok with that, then go ahead, and use it for God's glory. Like anything else, you can get addicted, distracted by it, or waylaid by it.So you need discipline. But you do with anything else as well. I respect Paul Washer, but his audience would be greatly increased if he maximized the Internet. Others are, and so his messages are getting out to people he could never reach without the full impact of the Internet.If used as a tool, Facebook can have a wide impact for God.
dpneedham wrote:
If used as a tool, Facebook can have a wide impact for God.
_________________Christiaan
Many people are going straight to hell, lots of them use Facebook. Will you go into the midst of the battle, or will you stay in the safety of the sanctuary?
HeartSong wrote:
One does not need to join Facebook to be in the midst of the battle. I will be praying that He blesses your ministry.
everything can be used for good, even facebook, but in our flesh dwells something that tends to make a good thing and use it for "evil".facebook is not evil in it self, but it could be an evil for us, if some need to "pluck their eye out" and cancel their account that is good, if some people can spread the gospel through facebook praise the Lord.we need to follow how the spirit leads us, do we spend more time facebooking then seeing his face probably a good idea to cancel that account.myself is not on so much but i have been encouraged and enjoyed the fellowship with many people. We often want to make a "law" so to speak"thou shalt not use facebook to much"ect, in deed you should not, but let us use good things for good, and if we find out that the good we intended has become an evil for me, then it is time to cut that hand of i think.whatever you do.... do it unto the lord.if you cant facebook for the lord, dont :-)
_________________CHRISTIAN
hmmhmm wrote:everything can be used for good, even facebook, but in our flesh dwells something that tends to make a good thing and use it for "evil".facebook is not evil in it self, but it could be an evil for us, if some need to "pluck their eye out" and cancel their account that is good, if some people can spread the gospel through facebook praise the Lord.we need to follow how the spirit leads us, do we spend more time facebooking then seeing his face probably a good idea to cancel that account.myself is not on so much but i have been encouraged and enjoyed the fellowship with many people. We often want to make a "law" so to speak"thou shalt not use facebook to much"ect, in deed you should not, but let us use good things for good, and if we find out that the good we intended has become an evil for me, then it is time to cut that hand of i think.whatever you do.... do it unto the lord.if you cant facebook for the lord, dont :-)
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. (Colossians 3:17).Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1Corinthians 10:31). Facebook, the internet, Sermon Index can all be used for God's purposes and for His glory or it can be used by man for his own personal satisfaction and to promote his own agenda. None of these things are good or evil in themselves, but we must ask the question, why, how, and for what purpose are we using them? Mike
_________________Mike
