Should my child be on social media?
This question can feel loaded, but it doesn’t have to be. Social media conversations are fraught with strong opinions, a desire for belonging, and the parenting version of the boogieman: We don’t know everything about every app, and what we do know is often enough to make us lose the little sleep we get.
Today we’re going to clarify that there is, in fact, a Biblical standard for social media. We’ll talk about how we make these big decisions with our children, and what parents need to know in order to be informed and intentional when stepping into the world of algorithm-guided relationships.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the gospel tech podcast. You are listening to our seven-episode series, that is the gospel tech crash course. If you have found us through the purposely podcast network, if you’ve just found us through friends, who’ve shared it, you want to start here because we have 120 some odd episodes at this point. And that’s a lot of information. So, what we’ve done is we’ve condensed the top seven. An episode on each of the topics that parents ask us about most, this is video games, social media, and smartphones pornography, safe tech at home… just the big picture on technology and the gospel that’ll ground us in this conversation so that you can then go back and make sense of what you’re going to hear, but you don’t have to start at episode one and two plus years’ worth of content. So welcome to the gospel tech podcast. Thank you for being here. I hope you are encouraged and I’m excited to be on this journey with you.
Welcome to the gospel tech podcast, a resource for parents who feel overwhelmed and outpaced as they raise healthy youth in a tech world. As an educator, parent, and tech user, I want to equip parents with the tools, resources, and confidence they need to raise kids who love God and use tech.
Hello everyone and welcome to the gospel tech podcast. The podcast dedicated to helping families love God and use tech. My name is Nathan Sutherland and today we get to discuss this question of should my family, or should my children specifically, be on social media? It’s one we get a lot and it’s one that’s really convoluted, so where we’re going to kind of begin the conversation is kind of set out, all right, what, what do we actually mean when we say that? When we ask that question, right? When our kids come to us, say, mom and dad, can I be on social media? It’s usually loaded. One, they usually have an outcome they expect and two, parents usually have no idea what they mean by that. So, we’re going to make sure we clarify that.
And then we’re going to talk about kind of, what is the purpose of social media? Can it be used well in light of the gospel? And if so, what might that look like? Because what we don’t want to do here is just go knee jerk and go, well, I don’t really like it, or I grew up without it, I don’t really think that you need it. Right. Like kind of come from our own perspective, but we actually want to come from. What does God say about this? Like there actually is a biblical standard for social media. There actually is an expectation on what this looks like. And while we can do lots of mental jujitsu to arrive at any kind of answer we want, we actually want to faithfully do what God tells us to do.
And we know that by his holy spirit, we know that by his word through the scriptures. And so, we are going to think through that intentionally, apply that purposefully in the world of technology and specifically in social media. So, I promise that we would be talking about social media and specifically the question of should my child use it. Our foundational versus are actually identical to the video game conversation. If you have not heard last week’s conversation on should my child play video games, please go back and listen to that. It is, I think, intentional in helping us understand the conversation of video games, not be afraid of them. Not simply judge them because they’re digital and apply the gospel in a way that we can still have the joy or the fun of it, excuse me, but we’re not looking to video games for our joy. Okay. And that’s kind of the focus of that.
Well, today, Similar focus, Proverbs 4:23, guard your heart for is the wellspring of life, right? This idea that Jesus cares a lot about what comes out of our heart. He actually cares about the heart more than just our actions. So, our social media conversation is not going to revolve around we’ll just get your kid to do these certain things, and then everything will be fine, because our child could never be on social media. And that doesn’t mean they love the Lord and Jesus actually goes very hard repeatedly about or after the seminary students of his day, the people that had quit their day jobs to volunteer their time to serving the Lord and following the law to a “T”. He goes after them, in fact, there’s a whole section of woes to those guys and the people that write for them, the scribes, the lawyers, right?
You have the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. And we have issues that Jesus points out with them. Specifically, you follow all the rules, and you don’t have any love. Our application from that is the point of today’s conversation, that isn’t, how do we get our kid to follow the rules better? The, the point of today’s conversation is how do we make sure that everything we’re doing is with love. Okay. And does social media get in the way of that love, right? That become our our conversation. And that is why we are guarding our heart because Jesus cares so much about it. God cares so much about our hearts, that anything that gets in the way of our hearts, being able to celebrate him, repent and love him, and then do what he says is then a problem. Which brings us to Philippians for eight.
The kinds of things that get in the way do not line up with Philippians 4:8. So whatever’s true, right. If God, if God is truth and Satan is the father of lies, then we want stuff that’s true. We want it to be honorable and just, and pure. And when you go into each of these, like, man, like what do these mean in light of who God is, right? It’s lining back up with his truth. And these are things that are subservient to him or extend directly from him. It’s lovely. It’s commendable. It’s excellent. And it’s worthy of praise. And so, Philippians 4:8 is one way. Guard our hearts, right? It’s not a, man, it’s not a, if I only do these things, then God is proud of me. Like God loves me as a child of his, and he forgives me in Christ when I repent, and I get a new identity. So, when he looks at me, he sees Jesus, right. That becomes my identity. And that’s by grace. It was in the old Testament. It is new. But now God in dwells me and the works that Jesus did are now being done in and through me, right. So, I’m not just sealed anymore as a child of God. I am now empowered to do good works. He’s called me to Ephesians 2:10 tells us. So, then we go to Galatians 5:22. How do I even know? Right. Like if these are the things I’m looking at externally that I’m using to guard my heart, how do I know if that’s the fruit I’m bearing?
Will you go to some place like Galatians 5:22, and you’ll see the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness self-control. And we look at those things go, all right, am I seeing that reflect in my life? If not, I can repent, right, and ask God to do that work and ask what, what do I either need to be removing or adding to be faithfulness and to see those fruits that the Lord has promised will come out of us because trees don’t try to grow fruit.
They just get planted, get watered, and fruit is what they do. And it’s a huge conversation, but when we have this today, when the reason those are our three focus verses again, is when it comes to social media, they’re really grounding, right? It really helps us set this frame for, man, this is what Jesus wanted for us.
Like in all aspects, in our relationships with God, with others, with ourselves, this is a, a great snapshot. So, when we talk to our kids, then it’s not, well, God said social media bad. Well, he didn’t mention social media. But we can look at social media and go, man, does it help me guard my heart? Right?
Is it these things listed in Philippians four? Do I produce Galatians 5:22? So, that becomes the basis for our conversation about social media. It’s those three verses. So, when we’re beginning this conversation, mom and dad can I have social media, right? And we are now coming to this conversation of, should my kid have social media?
Is that what I want? No matter the age of your child, let’s make sure we’re clear on what they’re actually asking. Most kids when they want social media are thinking social media on a smartphone. Now there’s an episode, man, back in the sixties 60 something, if you go back and look at it about, should your child have a smartphone. So, this is important to note that when your child goes, mom and dad, can I be on social media? They typically are envisioning not doing that from a public family computer but doing that from a device that comes out of their own pocket and becomes their own little world for communication. So, make sure you’re clear on that first and foremost, when they want social media, it usually means an app and it typically means their own device to engage that. So that’s a separate conversation. Clarify with your child.
When we are talking about social media, we need to then talk with our child. The first thing we need do is go, all right, what are kind of the pros and cons? We need to count the cost, as Jesus would say. He was speaking specifically about being a disciple and I believe that in looking at social media there is a cost in our discipleship. If we’ve been called to act a certain way, if we’ve been called to do, have, and be certain things in light of what God has done in the gospel, if the gospel’s the good news that God save centers, then that changes what I should do with my social media. Right. Well, all right. What does social media do? What am I counting the cost?
Well, the cost can be privacy. Right. Privacy, both on a personal level and on a data level., It can be safety, right? There are strangers out there. There’s unsafe content like about suicide and depression. There’s pornography, right? There’s health. That immediately ties in my mental health, my physical health, some of the behavioral design of things make it unhealthy.
It’s going to impact my joy. Right. I might feel anger about what I’m seeing because I’m only getting fed bad news. I don’t know if you guys know this, but bad news sells. So, there’s not a ton of good news out there in news cycles and social media as full of bad news because it gets clicks, and the algorithm picks up on that very fast.
So, the more fringe that it is, the more crazy and sad, and I don’t know, overwhelming that this subject is, the more times you’re going to see it and the more people are going to cover it and the algorithm will send it. So, it can impact our joy. It can lead to, again, depression and suicidal ideations. It can also impact our use of time.
Really just this idea that we can get distracted even by stuff that’s good because we didn’t mean to do it. So, if we’re using social media towards an end. That’s one thing, but if we’re just using it and consuming it, that might be another. We immediately get into comparison, right? We start to believe lies about what we should look like, who we should be like, what success is, which then impacts our contentment.
Right? We, we need to look at these things and go, all right, these are real just by the very nature of social media, not what platform you’re on, just because of what it is. And then the positives are it, it can be fun. It’s engaging. It can help me be relevant and kind of know the culture I’m in. It can help me reach others and, and kind of establish or keep friendships. It, it certainly can the question needs to be, is that more effective than other means, and is it right for you in this season? Right. If you’ve been called to minister to people in social media, that’s certainly one thing. And that will turn the conversation to accounting the cost and going all right, we know this has certain downsides, how do we make sure that we use it for this thing we’ve been called to? If you’re not called to that then maybe that’s a different calculus that goes into it and you’re counting the cost a different way and going, you know, I can do this exact same thing, but in a different way, with a different resource that maybe doesn’t have the downsides and negativity that this one has.
So, you do need to talk with your child up front about what is it? This is a great spot. Wonderful little pause here. Time to make a tech framework, whatever that looks like for you and your family. We have one if you go to gospeltechworkshop.com, if you go to [email protected], you will find the, the resources for the online workshop, the family tech framework, the basic ideas.
You need to understand the gospel. Right. And make sure you’ve talked that with your children about here’s, here’s our family expectations. You need to understand what we mean when we talk about like tool and tech and the different ideas behind why one technology impacts your brain differently than another.
And then to actually walk through we, that sets up specifically six areas where, like, content and safety and time use, and the space technology is going to be used. Right? How do we set all of these things up as a family so that we have expectations so it’s not well I just feel like this is good or bad as of today, right?
You actually go in intentionally and again, it goes with counting the cost. So, family check framework, this is a great spot to start when your kid comes to, you. Know they’re talking about a smartphone, know that they’re talking about social media that needs to be weighed, but let’s actually talk about it.
All right. How should we go about determining whether social media is a good fit? I’m going to have three questions to ask. First let’s ask, does this social media platform promise anonymity, right? Does it promise that you can go on there and not be known? Is that the purpose of this particular platform? Now some of ’em the entire point is for people to know who you are and to, you know, enjoy your sense of humor, and get to know you as a person. Great. That’ll come later, but the first is anonymity, because anonymity is a lie. So, if the point of going on here is using an avatar and no one knows who you are and you’re just kind of lurking out there talking about who knows what, and engaging with, who knows whom that is concerning, right? First because nothing’s anonymous. I mean, we are told by Jesus that the hypocrisy of the Pharisees they’re pretending to be righteous. He compares them to unmarked graves that the people they’re teaching are actually becoming unclean without even knowing it is the comparison he’s making there because if you had an unmarked grave, well, it’s against the law to come in contact with the dead.
And now you’ve walked across a dead person, and you didn’t even know it. Right. So, to be compared to an unmarked grave was not a compliment. And we sometimes run into this on the internet, that we think that we can get away with secret sin. Or we think we can have these secret failings and then they just won’t get out.
And Jesus goes, no, no. Not, not only does God know it. Like these things are going to be proclaimed from the rooftops you will be found out, right. It will hurt you long term, and it’s going to impact your personal joy and your ability to be on mission. So, don’t run somewhere and don’t make a point of using something that is specifically for the goal of being anonymous, because you’re just running into a lie there.
The second is it’s unsafe, right? There are no digital secrets, and we want our children to be willing to share anything with us. So, to use an app that actually promotes keeping secrets and then expect that our child is going to be comfortable sharing those secrets, doesn’t really serve the same purpose. Right? If we want social media to be healthful, we need it to be open and honest. And I would argue that it’s just like dating. Ask, why did they want to get you alone? Right. When we talk to our young people about dating, this is a bit aside, but still valuable, what is the point of that app? Trying to get you away from any form of identification or accountability, or ability for others to know what is happening, right? Like that in its premise is concerning. And we want to make sure that we can answer those questions with our young people. Is there a better option than something that would focus on anonymity, and this idea of you being separate from everything else and completely isolated? That is not a great decision for young people.
And that would bring us to our second question. Does it encourage accountability? So, while some of these social me social media platforms, excuse me do focus on being known, right? So, you can take like a TikTok where they’ve gone, they’ve moved away from this. Hey, we’re the messaging app that has disappear images of Snapchat. And they’ve moved into really quick, very personal, very real engagements for, I guess I can’t say all of it, but that, that’s kind of what they’ve promoted is we want people to be known and we want them to share kind of the joy of life with one another. All right. So you have that. They do encourage real people sharing one another, even if it filtered and really staged and rehearsed and all that. But at least these people are known, but what about accountability? And by that, we mean like you need a, you need a four-digit passcode on there for the parents. You need to be able to limit the content when they access it, where they access it.
Right. We need a history of activity. Is it stored or can it just be removed when the app is closed? Really the ability to be present and be known, right? To peel away that layer of anonymity and to encourage accountability because accountability, not control, but accountability is loving. This idea of like, you’re not the only one seeing this right?
Someone else who cares about you knows what’s happening here. And when something goes off the rails, we are here for you. Not to catch you and prove that you did something wrong. Parents, this is something we struggle with is we want so badly to keep our kids from making mistakes we made, or mistakes we’ve seen others make, that we jump from accountability of, I love you. And I know God loves you. And I want to show you that in action and preparation, to control of, I’m going to make sure you never make a mistake. And if you do, I’m going to make sure you remember it forever. Right? Parents, we need to repent of that. If we’ve already made that mistake with our kids, we need to acknowledge that, like name it to your kid and say son or daughter, I made a mistake when I did A, B or C. I want to repent of that and apologize to you and ask your forgiveness. Will you forgive me for not loving you and instead, trying to control you because people that’s not what Jesus does to us.
It’s not how God treats us. Right. See, we see from the very beginning of the Bible story, Adam and Eve being brought into relationship and offered a choice, right? Do not eat from this tree, because if you do, right, these other things are going to happen. And Adam passes that on to Eve apparently from based on the conversation we’re given, and Eve then decides based on three premises that she wants to make her own choice. She wants to trust herself and not God. And what does God do? God immediately meets that with mercy, right? He does not give them what they deserve. He instead goes, Hey, I’m going to cast you outta here because you’re going to eat of this tree and live forever. And that’s literally hell, you’re going to be forever without me in relationship.
You’re going to have to be your own God for all eternity. I love you too much. So, instead, I’m bringing a Redeemer, right? Genesis 3:15 is this promise of, you know, what her son, her seed is going to crush your head, snake, and this is what’s going to happen. And it’s repeated in Genesis nine and Genesis 15 throughout Exodus Leviticus numbers Deuteronomy…
These promises of a Redeemer throughout all of the prophets. This Jesus said, I’m the one the prophets are speaking about. And what is that big, beautiful rescue plan that God has. It’s you know what? I’m going to pay for this because you made a mistake and that doesn’t break our relationship, right? Instead, I’m going to pay for this on your behalf.
And when you repent and believe, I’m not just going to forgive you and show you this act of mercy, not giving you what you deserve as people who are fighting me as your king, I’m actually going to give you grace. I’m going to bring you in as sons giving full inheritance is the image of that. You’re getting full inheritance. You’re being indwelled by the spirit of God. And that’s a huge deal, because you’re not just left in your poverty, but no longer under a death sentence, you are forgiven your sentence and given all the wealth you could imagine, right? The riches of glory of God in order to be able to live in this life, the life, he asked us to live. To love others and to forgive people and to bring in restoration and reconciliation as he leads us.
So that’s, that’s a huge deal because we see that. Is what God is in modeling for us. That’s why we apologize to our kids because you know what, we’re not Jesus. And if we try to be Jesus, it’s not going to end well. So, we recognize we’re not, we model that for our kids. If this is what someone who loves Jesus does when we make a mistake and we remember the, I mean the beautiful verse of what God does with our sin, once he has bought and paid for it and we repent of it, he doesn’t take and go, right? I’m going to hold onto this in case you mess up in the future, right? No, he made this one-way covenant starting with Abraham in Genesis 15. And then the rest of this covenant is it’s one way. Yes. If you do these things, things go well for you, but it doesn’t stop. God’s love for us. Instead, he goes, no, I take your sin when you repent and believe I take your sin I throw it as far as the east is from the west or as the beautiful song says what love could remember no wrongs. We have done. Omniscient and all knowing he counts not their sum. Thrown into a sea without bottom, or shore. Our sins there, many, his mercy is more. And I, I love image because it is obviously repeating scripture, and the promises of what God has for us.
And that’s something we can live back with our kids in this social media conversation. That is what we start talking out with our kids. We say, all right, is there accountability in here? Honestly, parents TikTok is the best on accountability, which is terrifying, but it has the best parental controls. YouTube and Snapchat and Instagram are all significantly worse for the ability to just know what is happening a great resource in this. If you go to protectyoungeyes.com, Chris McKenna over there does an amazing job of kind of talking through these major apps. He calls ’em the big four.
I would go look at that. And specifically, at what he says about setting up parental controls. He does an amazing job. He actually works also with covenant eyes, which is an accountability software. But it, it’s awesome. So Protect Young Eyes is another great resource for specifically researching the accountability and the anonymity of social media platforms.
And then third, so the first is, does, does this app promise anonymity? Like what’s its point the second is, does it encourage accountability? Does it let us love you well, or is this encouraging you to get more isolated? And third is, does it promote good fruit? So, the Bible specifically references two types of fruit. You got good and bad fruit. So, it’s not just that you don’t produce any fruit. You can actually produce some pretty terrible stuff. And if you go to Romans 1:29-30 it’s referencing these people who were running from God, and God gave them up it says to a debased mind. In Romans 1:28 and that they started doing the things that they, they shouldn’t do, but God just removed his hand, and he was like, all right, I’m going to let you do these things that you want to do.
The goal being, I’m going to let you recognize what it’s like to live apart from me and the, the amount of just insatiable, hunger and desire you are capable of on your own, you will never be satisfied. You will never be content. You will never be joyful. You’re always going to be chasing down that next thing. And here’s what comes of it. Right? All manner of unrighteousness. This is starting in verse 29, evil, covetousness, malice. They’re full of envy murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips. Slanders, haters of God, insolent, haughty and boastful inventors of evil. Disobedient to parents, love that one, foolish faithless, heartless ruthless, Romans 1:31 is where that ends.
So, if we look at that and we go, man, does this promote what we saw in Galatians 5:22, when it talks about the fruit of the spirit, or does it promote Romans 1:30? Right. Is this bringing out when I look at the people that are celebrated, when I look at the people who are famous, when I look at what shows up on my feed, a predominant amount of time, right. So sure. There’s got to be good stuff, right. There are absolutely people posting helpful, hopeful, encouraging, even biblically base… snapchat and TikTok. I actually have a very solid biblical base of content. And yet, what is showing up in your feed? Like that’s probably not the predominant stuff showing up in your feeds.
So, and when I talk about feeds, that’s when you’re just open up the app, that’s the thing you can scroll down forever on. That just starts sending you information based on your age and your gender and what you have paused on even momentarily. The algorithm picks up very quickly. There’s a math problem that basically. We’re just looking for likes and amount of time you stay. So if I can get you higher levels of what they would call engagement, than this app has been a success, because that’s how we’re going to report our numbers to people, is our ability to bring in more people and keep them for longer. Right. That’s its goal. So, it’s going to send you crazy stuff because that’s, you’re like, whoa, what did I just see? like, what was that? And that’s what gets you to stay another five seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds. It’s not going to try to keep you for an hour. If it can a hundred million people for 10 seconds longer, right? That’s a big difference for them as far as viewing time and the value of their company. So, does it promote good fruit? Is it promoting good fruit in you? And is it promoting good fruit in others? With those three questions, anonymity accountability and good fruit, we can then look at our plus and minus sheet and go, all right, is this app right for you?
There are apps that kind of are outside the big four of Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube. And we need to weigh that out. All right. My child comes to me and says, can I have social media? We’re going to talk about, all right. Do you expect to get a phone with this? Right. Children do not need smartphones. They need dumb phones or flip phones. Smartphone are going to be too much work. If they’re getting a smartphone, it needs to be an Android device. Buy something from Samsung. They make a great product. It’s because it is way easier to make it accountable. The parental accountability is way, way, way higher on an Android run device.
And if they get a smartphone, that needs to be its own conversation on what are you going to do with this? Why do you need this level of power and internet independence? It is important for our kids to have safety access, be able to call if they need a ride, find direction somewhere that can be done with a gab wireless phone, it can be done with a wise phone from tech list. It could be done with just a straight up flip phone. So, we do want to keep that in mind. So, that’s the first part of the conversation.
The second is what social media you’re gonna use? Protectyoungeyes/apps will help you talk through that and talk about the pros and cons of each particular app. And then we have those three questions, what about anonymity, accountability and the fruit this is going to help you produce, because most of our kids just want to know that their love, that they’ve got access to their friends. That they aren’t going to be locked in a tower, that they’re going to be allowed to have joy and expression and fun. And those are all really important things, right? They do need to be able to, especially by middle school, start flexing their wings a little bit and learning what it looks like to fly, and learning what it looks like to make mistakes. But we want to make sure those mistakes aren’t all fatal, right, or are not completely tragic avoidable mistakes, right? There’s a reason we send them to driver’s ed before giving them a car. There’s a reason that would be a good idea, even if it wasn’t a law. So, let’s just close by remembering that there is a biblical standard for our social media, right? We need to make sure that it guards our hearts.
So, if social media’s helping us build solid foundations and have hearts that are open to what God is doing and loving others in that in truth and love, then we’re solid there. If it matches with Philippians 4:8 and our social media is helping us pursue and think about and focus on and celebrate what is true and honorable and just, all of those wonderful things, that’s fantastic. And if it is producing in us, love joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness self-control, like, that’s awesome. Then we are on track here. Now we just need to look at the actual app itself and go, all right, is this the spot? Is this the Roman road we take? Cause if it helps me be anonymous, well that doesn’t seem to be relational, like I was told to be before. And if it doesn’t encourage accountability, then how am I sure what my fruit is actually going to be? Because any of us, without akin accountability, even with the best intentions we’re going to veer off. Like there’s an entire reason we’re supposed to hold other Christians, specifically, accountable and repent and confess our sins to one another. And that repentance is directly related to believing. If I’m not willing to repent, then I don’t believe I have a problem. If I don’t believe I have a problem, then I’m not weak and lowly in heart. Right? Then I’m not wearying heavy Laden. I’m doing great on my own and well that’s language of someone who’s an active rebel from a God who loves them and says, no, you do have a problem. You need to trust me on this. So that is, that is our biblical standard. Right? And then the opposite would be the Romans 1:30 or Galatians 5:19, where we talk about what does the flesh look like if we’re producing fruit, in light with the flesh or in line with the flesh? That’s not great.
So, that is what we are looking at for this conversation. I hope it encourages you in it that you can now go talk to your kid. You can look at social media and you don’t have to know everything about everything. You’ve got a great resource and protectyoungeyes/apps, that will actually talk through specific details. You can look at that app with your kiddo and you can talk with your young person about why do you want to use this? If your friends are on there, is there another app that’s safer. Is there another way to do this? Can we just have this kid over? Can we just text from my phone? And I guess that would be my last encouragement families.
Please have a public space for your kids to use tech. Social media’s hard enough to use well in public spaces, just because of the way they’re designed. So, using them privately on private devices is just encouraging negative habits and dangerous outcomes. That’s side note, but still important. Wanted to make sure I said it. But with your kid, talk through it, talk through, not just are you comfortable with it, but is this something that will help them become more of who God has designed them to be? If they’re already using it, is it actively helping them do that? Or is it. Torpedoing their joy and their hope and their relationships and their perspective?
And therefore, it needs to at least be adjusted or limited or maybe cut out and replace with something more helpful. So, I hope it’s encouraging to you. Would you have this conversation with one of your family members today? Maybe you don’t have kids, maybe you’re not married, maybe to someone in your community then that you can speak to about what is social media, what role does it play in your life?
Is it helpful and how is it hurting? And really be real about that and submit even your technology to Jesus because he is worth it. And we don’t want anything to come between him and us, and we don’t want to justify anything that is actually drawing us away from him. If it was encouraging, would you share it with a friend? Would you give us a five-star rating if it was helpful? And if it wasn’t five-star material, would you email me at [email protected]. You can also join us on social media for daily during the week, we take our weekends off, but during the week, updates that encourage you and remind you of the gospel and how it ties to our technology at lovegodusetech on both Instagram and Facebook. And would you join us next week, here, as we continue our conversation about what it looks like to love God and use tech.
