One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was “corrupting my soul.”

It’s a been a year now since I “surfed the web” or “checked my email” or “liked” anything with a figurative rather than literal thumbs up. I’ve managed to stay disconnected, just like I planned. I’m internet free.

And now I’m supposed to tell you how it solved all my problems. I’m supposed to be enlightened. I’m supposed to be more “real,” now. More perfect. 

But instead it’s 8PM and I just woke up. I slept all day, woke with eight voicemails on my phone from friends and coworkers. I went to my coffee shop to consume dinner, the Knicks game, my two newspapers, and a copy of The New Yorker. And now I’m watching Toy Story while I glance occasionally at the blinking cursor in this text document, willing it to write itself, willing it to generate the epiphanies my life has failed to produce.

I didn’t want to meet this Paul at the tail end of my yearlong journey.

So writes Paul Miller in his fascinating concluding article about this digital experiment which has ended up as a modern parable on Matthew 15:17-20.

“Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

We can cut ourselves off from every potentially corrupting outside influence in the universe, but we can’t cut ourselves off from the corruption inside us. We can cut off one head, and seven others, even uglier, will appear. We can barricade our homes, churches, and schools against the “world,” and the “world” will still bubble up out of our hearts.

Unless we can find a way of creating a new heart.

Amazingly and gloriously and wonderfully, that’s exactly what God promised in both the Old and New Testament:

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them (Ezek. 36:26-27).

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (2 Cor. 5:17).

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Apart from giving them the Gospel, the single best thing we can do for our kids’ college, career, and marriage prospects is to train them to be self-disciplined in their cell phone use. Improving their cell phone habits will:

1. Raise their grades: Study time and quality will dramatically improve if they are not being continually interrupted by text messages and Facebook updates.

2. Increase their knowledge: As cell phone use increases, book reading plunges. Thankfully, the opposite is also true.

3. Strengthen their reasoning: Teachers everywhere are alarmed at students’ increasing inability to concentrate and follow the logic of a sustained argument, with most tracing the damage to cell phone distraction and abbreviated communication.

4. Expand their worldview: Although it’s called the World Wide Web, most kids’ worldview shrinks when national and international news are deluged and drowned in a tsunami of local and parochial trivia served up via the social media fire hose.

5. Improve their health: It’s not only that late-night use of screen technology delays and disturbs sleep, but a staggering number of kids check their Facebook status throughout the night as well. Nothing is more important to long-term health than long and deep sleep.

6. Strengthen their relationships: Families who take radical steps to reduce cell phone access and use in the home testify to the huge improvement in sibling and parental relationships.

7. Enhance their communication skills: Employers are desperate for people who can speak a reasonable number of complete and coherent sentences with clarity and confidence, and who can relate to people face to face with courtesy and care. That’s not learned with our faces in a phone.

8. Clarify their vision: When kids are constantly distracted by the latest status update, text message, or Tumblr GIF, they can’t see beyond the horizon of the present to seek and find a long-term purpose for their lives (great article on that here).

9. Ground their self-image: The more time spent in the virtual world, the more unreal our self-image becomes. Our kids need to be grounded in real flesh & blood relationships in the real world if they are not to get an over-inflated sense of who they are and what they’ve accomplished.

10. Deepen their spirituality: Horizontal communication pushes out vertical communication. When kids start the day with their phone rather than their Bible in their hands, the day has already gone wrong.

If we love our children, we must take radical action now. Look at the benefits. Re-write the list in the negative and ask, “Do I want that for my kids?”

What can we do? Confiscation is very appealing, but usually a bit extreme. We can use parental controls and accountability software. We can forbid phones in bedrooms, at study desks, and at meal times. I now insist on all phones (including my own) be kept in one central place when in the house and I limit the number of times they can be checked in an evening. We’re also starting a phone fast on Sundays. And let there be consequences for misuse or overuse, yes, even confiscation at times.

But perhaps the best thing we can do is to talk to our kids about these ten positive reasons for making this wonderful technology a servant rather than a master. It might be the best career move they make. If they master their cell-phone they will stand out in their generation in so many positive ways.

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No parent wants to give his or her child unfettered access to the Internet. But neither is it realistic or wise to forbid any access whatsoever. How then do we plot a course that avoids these two extremes and yet maximizes their moral and spiritual safety? In my recent article for Christianity.com, I outlined 7 Steps to Using Technology for God’s Glory.

1. Educate
2. Fence
3. Mentor
4. Supervise
5. Review
6. Trust
7. Model

Click here for the full article.

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If you’re reading this blog, and you probably are, you need to watch this movie. Even if you’re not reading this blog, you need to watch this movie. Runner-up for “Best Documentary” at the recent San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, Captivated is all about “finding freedom in a media captive culture.”

Mediatalk 101 leader, Philip Telfer, takes us on a nationwide tour of experts, families, and individuals, to demonstrate not only the problems of techno-media slavery, but also how God’s Word addresses the unique challenges we face today.

Visit the website for more information and some nice discount offers on purchases of two or more DVDs. Why not buy a batch for your church or school, or arrange a showing? What will you get for your money?

1. Expert commentary: wide range of insightful commentary from scientists, doctors, theologians, journalists
2. Hope-filled testimonies: numerous inspiring stories of how individuals and families have been delivered from techno-media slavery
3. Diversity of contributors: lots of gender, age, and racial variety in both the commentary and the testimonials
4. Professional filming: high standards of photography and audio that make it a real pleasure to watch and listen
5. Wide suitablity: I watched it with my wife, two daughters (8 & 10), and two teenage sons (14 & 15) and we were all “captivated” from beginning to end
6. Gospel focus: the film progressively moves towards the Gospel and sets forth Christ as the ultimate deliverer of all captives.

I have no financial interest in this film and I was not asked or paid to write this review. I just think it’s a tremendous resource for churches and families who need all the help they can get to produce Christ-captivated lives.

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Adam Dachis asks: “How can I stop using my phone all the time and actually connect with people in the real world?”

I think many of us can identify with this question. If it’s not a problem for us, it probably is for our kids. If it is a problem for us, our bad example will soon make it a problem for our kids.

Apparently the most common accident for an iPhone is for men to drop it down the toilet! Which says a lot!!

This can be a real addiction. Scientists have detected that every time an email arrives, or we get an RT, or a Facebook like, our bodies inject a tiny squirt of pleasure chemical (it’s like a mini crack-cocaine hit). So every buzz or beep notification creates a craving in our bodies for the squirt-hit.

How to break the addiction? Adam’s strategies include:

• No phone usage at social events unless you really need to call someone or you’re looking up information as a group activity ,
• No answering calls or text messages on a date unless you’re expecting an emergency call or the calls will not stop coming.
• You can only use the phone at stoplights, and only to check directions or change music.
• No smartphone usage during short-term interactions (e.g. checking out at the grocery store).
• Turn off alerts for most apps
• Lock your phone with a long password

Lots of families use a phone basket where everyone’s phones have to be placed during mealtimes with no access exceptions, no matter if the pile is beeping and buzzing like a Nasa rocket.

Also, how about switching on airplane mode one hour before bed and not switching it back until after you’ve prayed and read the Bible each morning.

Another approach is to set a rule that for every time you check email, etc., the next time you feel the urge, try to pray for someone. That will cut phone use by 50% and significantly increase the number of people you pray for every day.

What other strategies have you found helpful?

Read the rest of Adam’s post here.

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My friends at Covenant Eyes have a webinar next week called Pornography and Your Church: Changing the Culture of Your Church to Change Lives.

The purpose of this webinar is to give pastors and lay church leaders practical ideas about how they can create a “culture of accountability” to combat the prevalent but hidden sin of pornography.

• How do you help men to be more open about their habitual sins?
• How do you help parents to proactively guard their homes?
• How do you protect those on your staff from Internet temptations?

During this webinar you will hear from church leaders who have witnessed great changes among the men, women, and families in their churches.

You will also be given 5 practical steps you can take to walk your church through a similar process.

Register today! Space is limited. Join us on February 29, 2012, at 3pm.

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The 360 is a widely-used human resources and leadership tool in which a range of colleagues, friends, and family offer their different perspectives on your skills, talents, and character, to provide a 360-degree view of who you are. Not without its limitations, it nonetheless helps us begin overcome our inability to see ourselves as others see us.

Social media expert, Alexandra Samuel, proposes that we regularly conduct an online 360 in order to evaluate our online personas. Although she rejects the distinction between Online Life and IRL (In Real Life), Alexandra does recognize that “online, the human struggle to honestly understand our own strengths and weaknesses is intensified by the newness of our online customs and interactions.” And the stakes are high:

Just like your offline personality, your online persona now forms a significant part of your professional identity. Understanding how those personas align, diverge, and complement one another is crucial to ensure your professional effectiveness, on- and offline.

Her solution is to send the following questions to people who know you both on- and offline, as well as to people who know you online only, and ask respondents to provide a scaled assessment (1= never, 10=always):

1. Is polite and respectful in their emails, tweets, or other online communications
2. Provides useful or informative content in their online contributions or comments
3. Makes effective use of their time online, and responds to online communications (e.g. emails, messages), comments (on blogs or in Twitter mentions) and feedback in a timely and effective way
4. Provides constructive feedback and generous appreciation in their online comments, replies, and other online communications
5. Is transparent about their relationship to or financial interest in the brands, companies, and products they discuss online
6. Makes thoughtful and appropriate choices about which on- and offline communications channels to use for different purposes or in different circumstances, and inspires or encourages others to do the same
7. Builds online relationships that support their own work and their organization’s goals
8. Is an online leader within their field

Average your score on each question, analyze where you are strong and weak, and then compare with your offline persona. Are you strong on leadership but weak on politeness? Do you simply produce or do you also engage constructively? And compare this with your offline persona. As Alexandra concludes:

If your personas diverge — if you’re known for your personal touch offline, but come off as a bull in a china shop online — you may want to think about how you can translate your face-to-face interpersonal skills into your online relationships, or conversely, how to speak so that the authority and expertise you hold online is also recognized by the colleagues who work down the hall.

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Yesterday I posted the Digital Dictionary I compiled after reading Erik Qualman’s Digital Leader. Today I want to give you the ten most important digital commandments that I took away from the book. (The brackets give the Kindle page location). Erik blogs at Socialnomics.

1. Thou shalt repeat every day: “Nothing is confidential.”
Digital footprints are the information we post about ourselves online, while digital shadows are what others upload about us. Collectively, these two items have changed the world forever, and as current or aspiring leaders it is necessary to adapt to this new reality….With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever—we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone. The fact that what we do today will be recorded for eternity is new to most of us and it can be downright overwhelming (95-101).

Rather than becoming an expert on privacy policies, the best approach is to assume that everything you do digitally will be found out by the person you least want to find out. Taking that one step further, everything that you do offline will be digitally discoverable as well (880-881).

2. Thou shalt not multitask
A study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment by 10 points. This decrease is the equivalent of the effects from not sleeping for 36 hours—and exhibits more than twice the impact of smoking marijuana. In a study of 1,000 of its employees, Basex, an information-technology research firm, found striking data showcasing inefficiency. It was determined that 2.1 hours per day is lost to interruptions. This figure indicates over 26 percent of the average workday is wasted due to multitasking and unwanted interruptions. Jordan Grafman, chief of the cognitive neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, explains, “There’s substantial literature on how the brain handles multitasking. And basically, it doesn’t …what’s really going on is a rapid toggling among tasks rather than simultaneous processing”  (250-257).

Multitasking is junk food for the brain (2582). [My favorite quote in the book!]

3. Thou shalt be optimistic
Offline complaints will permeate your digital communication, opening a doorway to a seemingly infinite audience. To be a leader in the changing modern world, it is imperative to break this habit (635-636).

Aross all conversations there is a ratio of 1 to 6 in terms  of encouragement to criticism. So for every one “good job” there are six “why can’t you be more like your brother?” “he doesn’t listen,” “when you do that it gets on my nerves,” “you never,” “they don’t get it,” or “you can’t” type statements. For the next week pay close attention to who in your life is constantly harping. As a baseline, the average person complains 15-30 times per day (639-644).

The best way to improve other people’s lives around you is to ensure that you are happy—your positivity will influence others.  (662-663).

We don’t want a trail littered with complaints and negative comments…If you habitually complain you will either a) have your followers leave you since people like to follow individuals that inspire hope, or b) have a legion of chronic complainers. Neither of these resulting scenarios will benefit you and you will cease being an effective digital leader  (672-677).

4. Thou shalt distinguish between reputation and integrity
Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; it’s doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage. Integrity is keeping your word. Integrity is that internal compass and rudder that directs you to where you know you should go when everything around you is pulling you in a different direction. Some people think reputation is the same thing as  integrity, but they are different. Your reputation is the public perception of your integrity. Because it’s other people’s opinions of you, it may or may not be accurate. Others determine your reputation, but only you determine your integrity (Tony Dungy, 853-857).

Integrity does not come in degrees—low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you do not”  (Tony Dungy, 869-870).

The best way to handle this new digital age in regards to your reputation is to maintain your integrity and treat everyone you engage both online and offline as if he is the last person you might ever to speak to. People will, in return, influence your leadership capabilities and legacy  (1074-1076).

5. Thou shalt simplify your life
Almost everyone has too much to handle in this complex, digital age. The average person receives 41.5 texts per day and sends/receives 141 email messages per day. However, complexity is often caused by us! This situation is great, though, because it means complexity can be easily removed by us as well. If you simplify, you will be able to stand out from the crowd, influence others, and reduce stress  (1203-1206).

6. Thou shalt say “NO”
Embrace the powerful habit of saying or typing “no thanks.” Often our ultimate success is determined by what we decide NOT to do, as much as by what we decide to do. Get in the practice of initially saying no. If an opportunity does not inspire an immediate “I have to do this!” reaction, it will not be missed  (1210-1212)

By saying yes to everyone, you say no to everyone….Trying to help everyone often results in helping no one. We get more and more requests digitally since it’s much easier to ask people for a favor via the safety of a keyboard than looking them eye-to-eye. Hence, the ability to say no, strongly and politely, becomes more and more important in the future. By all means, you should help people; that is really why we are all on this planet. However, we suggest going “long and deep” rather than “fast and vast.” (1253-1288).

Try answering all digital items in two sentences or less (1419).

7. Thou shalt be personal
Personal is powerful. For many of us, the thought of having others know more about our passions and personal lives can be daunting, especially in the digital, online realm. If you become comfortable with this form of sharing, however, it can be powerful for anything you are trying to accomplish…Remember that personal isn’t about revealing that you have a tattoo on your left shoulder, it’s about letting people know about the passions and principles in your life that you stand by. When they know this information about you, personal becomes powerful (1988-1990).

8. Thou shalt have a technology Sabbath
Starting now, pick one day during the week when you will completely unplug from technology. That’s right, no email, mobile phone, texting, tweets, etc. If this seems impossible, then you need this even more! If you can’t go cold turkey, even for a day per week, start slow by selecting one day per month (2736-2738).

9. Thou shalt have a digital mentor
Determine a leader you admire. Spend at least 20 minutes a day watching his or her activity. Pay attention to: Who is he conversing with? What topics does she post and in what tone? Why does he post? When does she post? Where does he post and what tools or sites does he use? The best digital mentor is generally someone that is in your industry or shares similar interests—someone that you find intriguing. Learn from these mentors and practice what they are doing (3231-3240).

10. Thou shalt share information
With the digital revolution, you actually gain more influence as a leader when you share information. Remember that influence has surpassed information in terms of importance because information is cheap and easily accessible (3601-3603).

If you were to take only one thing from this chapter it is simply this: you will attract more followers digitally in two days than you will in two months if you show interest in them versus trying to get them interested in you (3814-3818).

Digital Leader by Erik Qualman.

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RSS and email readers watch here. Extracted from the video God’s Technology.

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Some fascinating (frightening?) stats and some helpful advice from Soren Gordhamer at Mashable on how to parent in the digital revolution. His five main points:

1. Technology no longer has boundaries
2. Know when to cut it off
3. The difference between preference and addiction
4. Focus on technology that truly connects us to our kids
5. Model the balance

Well worth reading the whole post here.

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Preachers, how long will the impact of your sermon last? Hopefully a bit longer than the impact of this blog post.

According to bitly, the Twitter, Facebook and Google+ links to this post will have generated half of all the views it will every receive within 3 hours of its posting. After that it’s downhill rapidly.

The only bright spot is Youtube, whose links produce about 7 hours of attention. (Time to start video blogging again.)

Thankfully the Holy Spirit is promised to accompany preaching in a way that He is not promised to blogging.

Maybe that should affect our priorities?

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I’m sure most of you have searched Google for a particular subject (e.g. Worship), found five million results, and given up trying to find a worthwhile post after five or six pages.

Or maybe you’ve tried to refine your search with multiple combinations of pluses, minuses, quotation marks, etc, and narrowed your search down to…one million results. Hmmm.

And then there’s that article you remember reading last year on the subject, but what website was it on? And who wrote it?

Don’t you wish you had your own personalized Google, one that was tailored just to your interests, that would spare you so much of this frustration?

Well, you can. It takes a bit of work and perseverance, but the results are worth it. Welcome to Diigo. Strange name, but excellent idea.

I started using this simple bookmarking system a couple of years ago and although it’s taken 5-10 minutes every day to keep it organized and updated, I’ve saved myself so much time and hassle in the long term.

Basically I use Diigo to bookmark, highlight, and tag every useful article I read on the Internet. You can get a little Diigo plug-in for most browsers; a Diigo icon sits on your navigation bar and when you read anything good on the Internet, you simply click to bookmark it, highlight any particularly helpful text in the article, and tag it with relevant words.

Now, when I want to search for articles on “Worship,” I go to my Diigo homepage and enter my search there. That brings up any articles I’ve tagged with “Worship,” gives a brief description of the article, and even shows me any text I highlighted when I originally read it. Soooo much quicker! And if you stick at it over time, eventually you’ve built up your own personalized Google, a search engine that is tailored to your own special interests. A few other neat features are:

1. You can follow other people. If you follow me (davidprts is my Diigo user name) you can have the posts I bookmark every day sent to you in a daily update, or simply look at my Diigo homepage to see what I’ve been up to. So, say you have to do a talk on “a Christian view of Technology” you can head on over to my Diigo search bank and find articles that I’ve bookmarked “Technology” over the last few years. You’ll have to figure out which ones I agree with and which I don’t!

2. You can start groups. I have Diigo groups for some of my PRTS classes and invite the students to join. That means that when I see a post that’s relevant to, say, my Ministry class, I bookmark it for that group and the students’ learning experience is enhanced by seeing the kind of posts I think will be helpful for that particular subject. Diigo helps me keep teaching outside class hours!

3. You can annotate pages. You can attach “post-it” notes to webpages and read notes that others have posted there too. Or you can get students interacting about an article or blog post using this feature.

4. You can make bookmarks private. Obviously there are some things I want to bookmark that I’m not that keen for everyone to know about. For example, if I’m bookmarking sites with cribs, push-chairs, and diapers, well someone might think… (for the avoidance of doubt and gossip, that was an attempt at a joke).

5. You can mark articles “Read later.” Instead of seeing a good article, deciding to come back to it later, and forgetting where you read it, you can save articles for reading later, something best done in batches.

Criticism

My only complaint is that Diigo does not yet allow emailing of articles and posts. Evernote allows you to email from your iPhone or iPad with tags in the subject line and everything is filed away for you. With Diigo, if I’m reading my RSS feed on my iPad using Flipboard, I have to email good articles to Gmail, open them in my browser, then bookmark and tag. That’s a bit of a hassle (and I’m sure Diigo are working on this – please!), but it’s still worth it for the long-term benefit.

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Fascinating new report just published by the Barna Group on the impact of technology on families. You can read a summary here, but here are the major findings.

1. Parents are just as dependent on technology as are teens and tweens.

2. Most family members, even parents, feel that technology has been a positive influence on their families.

3. Very few adults or youth take substantial breaks from technology.

4. Families experience conflict about technology, but not in predictable ways.

5. Few families have experienced—or expect—churches to address technology.

Re #5 you may want to have a look at this DVD or this book.

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I was expecting a lot from Tim Challies’ new book, The Next Story: Life and faith after the digital explosion. But it has far surpassed my expectations.

Thinking that I already knew quite a lot about the subject, and also confident that I already knew much of Tim’s thinking on it, when I first saw the book I thought, “Hey, I’ll skim this in a couple of hours.”

I’ve not read a book so slowly for a long time.

Not that it’s difficult to understand. It is just so substantive and thought-provoking. It took me to a whole new level, even dimension, of thinking about the impact of digital technology on me and my world. I found myself reading a paragraph, pausing, reflecting, praying; reading a paragraph, pausing…etc. Three hours later, I was only at chapter three. Two weeks and many hours later, I’ve read the book through twice, and already know that it’s going to join my small pile of annual re-reads (if I can get it back from my wife).

I certainly want my teenage sons to read it; and I look forward to discussing it with them as I try to set them on a good foundation of digital virtue.

I’d also recommend that congregations buy quantities of the book and ensure that each family gets a copy. It could be the best bit of pastoring you do this year (I think Ligonier have the best deal at the moment).

I thought about writing a book review. However, Tim’s been such a good friend and Christian brother to me, I knew I couldn’t write it with any kind of objectivity. I’ll leave that to others.

Instead, I thought I would provide the questions I wrote out for myself as I read the book, questions that I now intend to use as a kind of annual or bi-annual digital inventory for self-examination. I hope others may also find them useful.

Chapter 1: Discerning Technology

1. Do I own my digital technology or does it own me? Does it serve me or am I its slave? Do I use it to serve God or is the Devil using it to enslave me?

2. Am I keeping abreast of research into the impact and influence of technology on me and my world? Am I applying theology to technology?

3. Has my technology become an idol, or an enabler of idols?

Chapter 2: Understanding Technology

4. Do I evaluate the downside/risk of any new technology before I buy it or use it?

5. Do I understand how each particular medium communicates a message, and even shapes and distorts it?

6. Am I analyzing how technology is not only re-shaping the world (society, culture, morals), but also the church, the family, and even myself (my brain, my relationships, my personality)?

Chapter 4: Communication

7. Am I abusing the new tools of communication to serve the idol of productivity?

8. Am I seeking significance and self-worth in the number of Twitter followers, blog subscribers, and Facebook friends I have?

9. Am I addicted to information?

10. Are my digital communications serving as a substitute for face-to-face relationships, or even spiritual communication with God?

11. Do I ever choose anonymity over visibility?

12. Am I open and honest in my accountability?

13. Is my online persona real or partly an act?

Chapter 5: Mediation

14. Are my best and most valued relationships mediated (conducted through an electronic medium) or face-to-face?

15. Am I consciously pursuing less mediation in my relationships?

16. Is my local church community more important to me than any online community I’m part of?

Chapter 6: Distraction

17. When I wake up, do I read my Bible and pray before any electronic communication?

18. Am I carving out and securing significant amounts of uninterrupted time for deep and focused thinking?

19. What am I doing to make time for contemplation and meditation? Am I taking regular digital sabbaths?

20. What am I doing to preserve and strengthen my reading skills in an age of distraction and skim reading?

21. How long a period of time can I go without connecting with the digital world? Am I seeking to extend and stretch such periods?

22. How am I teaching my family to use technology? Am I a good role model?

Chapter 7: Information

23. Has information become an end in itself (informationism), or am I processing information so that it becomes knowledge and then wisdom?

24. Am I cultivating and developing my memory or increasingly relying on Google?

25. Am I rationing and regulating information flow to ensure quality over quantity?

Chapter 8: Truth and Authority

26. Am I watchful about how ultimate authority and objective truth are being redefined and undermined by Internet authority models of consensus and relevance?

27. What am I doing to promote God’s Word as the ultimate authority and perfect witness to the truth?

Chapter 9: Visibility and Privacy

28. Are my digital footprints in paths of righteousness? Would my ministry be finished if my online habits were “Wiki-leaked?”

29. Am I promoting myself or my Lord?

30. Have I confessed my digital sin and found forgiveness in the blood of Christ that washes whiter than snow? Am I daily seeking and depending upon the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit to help me use digital technology for God’s glory?

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