There is no denying that social media has officially been interwoven into social action over the years. Some say they're officially inseparable. But is that true? Today we talk about what really happens, according to the Bible, when social media is integrated with social issues.

Positive Aspects

Speed of Information 6:01

Stirring up Strong Feelings 8:37

Make Many Voices One 10:05

Give a Voice to People Typically Shut Out 10:50

Negative Aspects

Privileging the Image Over the Word 17:17

Tendency to Eliminate Careful Discussion, Thinking, or Reasoning 21:01

Completely Overrun by Sin 25:26

Tendency Toward Mob Mentality 31:33

Privileging the Most Fired Up Voices 35:12

Portraying Power and Money as a Grassroots Movement 47:35

Scriptures

Psalm 1v1-2
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.

See Acts 19

Acts 19v32
Some therefore cried one thing and some another, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.

See Matthew 12v14-21

Mark 3v5
And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

See Isaiah 42v1-4

2 Corinthians 11v28
besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.

See Isaiah 53

1 Corinthians 1v18-20
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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