Facebook allows a window into humanity that exposes many traits and tendencies, many of which are negative.
They aren’t new, but in Technicolor through social media.
As human beings, we love people who agree with us.
While that is not exclusively a bad thing, it nonetheless can create problems.
In politics and in volatile news stories, social media is ripe for conflict. Oftentimes, people post things that are ridiculous and erroneous. Bias births error and truth is discarded like the trash. Moreover, bias isn’t teachable, and it assumes a life of its own.
The sources we cherish may say more than we realize.
They can expose underlying racism and radicalism without a word from us. We must be especially careful about these issues because once our credibility is gone; no one will listen to anything else we have to say.
Three questions many need to ask themselves:
Do we hate the President more than we hate Satan?
Are our political views more important than the gospel?
Would we rather fight than evangelize?
Christians need to ask themselves some hard questions.
When we enter the Church (Acts 2:38,47), we enter the kingdom of Christ (Matthew 16:18-19; Ephesians 1:22- 23). Everything we do must be to glorify Jesus (Ephesians 3:20-21).
As Christians, we are dual citizens. In the fleshly world, we must never allow our lives to supersede our spiritual lives. We must be careful how we conduct ourselves because holiness never takes a day off (Matthew 28:18-20; Romans 12:1-2).
Our politics, race, hobbies, beliefs and relationships should never be more important than the Lord, or Satan will have an inroad into our hearts (1 Peter 5:8).