What is social media?
A: Websites and applications (apps) that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Big Question: What does the Bible say about the use of social media?
1. The principle of .
Is this the or use of my time?
2. The principle of .
Am I able to exercise while on social media?
Proverbs 25:28 (ESV) – A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV) – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
a. Do I have self-control when it comes to ?
b. Do I have self-control when it comes to ?
Proverbs 4:23 (ESV) – Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
3. The principle of .
Am I being led away from the truth by what I read (and believe) on social media?
1 John 4:1-3 (ESV) – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
4. The principle of .
What is the gap between the “you” people see on social media and the “you” that you really are?
Who are you?
a. You are a of God.
John 1:12 (ESV) – But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God,
b. You to God.
1 Corinthians 6:19 -20 (ESV) – Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
c. You are .
John 15:13 (ESV) – Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
d. You are .
Jeremiah 1:5a (ESV) – Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you;
5. The principle of .
Matthew 22:37-39 (ESV) – And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
a. Am I loving and God?
Colossians 3:17 (ESV) – And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Ephesians 4:30-31 (ESV) – And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
b. Am I loving and others?
Ephesians 4:29, 32 (ESV) – Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear… Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 (ESV) – Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Ephesians 4:15 (ESV) – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ.
c. Am I missing out on real ?
Hebrews 10:24-25 (ESV) – And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.