Joey the preacher man!

[ninerninerzero]

Oh my soul, ppl! Joey preached at deluge on wednesday! He is sooooo awesome. He's my new favorite preacher. He's a born speaker, really. I always knew he was, but i never thought I'd see the day. He preached on Myspace's. It was so awesome and awkward and intense and i loved it. He's perty much a pastor now. We have to call him Sir, or Mr. Phillips

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[marvin033]

The point is :

Myspace or ANY OTHER JOURNALING SITE INCLUDING THIS ONE can be sinful- not that blogs or journals are sinful but they can be for these reasons (refering to my deluge notes)

1) they create a soap-opera mentality. Face it we love to see how other people's lives are for some reason "we find it terribly fascinating"

2) main-mega phone site - you can tell who you want and what you want- let you're voice be heard! type of ordeal

3) Myspace and other journaling sites can be a "match-making" site. And I say Myspace because it is made by advertisers for advertisers and most of the adds on there are dating ones. Just think of this 10% of ALL internet advertising is on MYSPACE

4) Myspace is an almost no-adult site- basically no accountablity. Mhmmmm why hang out at a place your parents aren't? Notice how there are not a whole lot of Married people on this site or parents?

5) Sites like these can develop friends with no effort. The bible puts friendship on such a high pedestool that it's almost like "trashing" friendships when you have 50+ friends as most on Myspace or other journals do.

DANGERS

1) Lack of control on your own site- just because you have a friends list doesn't mean there the only ones who see it. Your friends bring there friends who bring there friends and before you know it...you've got some weirdo creep looking at your site and you didn't even know it.

2) Physical danger- information/ false reputation etc etc can lead to your physcial danger
3) Brings a pull towards worldliness

And this is not all that was mentioned:

Some of the hard Q's you can ask about your sites are this:
1) Are YOU asking the right sorts of questions about your site?
2) Why aren't older/ Married people on the sites?
3) Does my site glorify God?
4) Does it reflect Godly character / wisdom or something else?
5) What WILL people see on your site?
6) Am I aware of all links either by me or someone else on my site?
7) Am I a different person on my site that I am at home?
8) Do I have friend's online that I would not invite into my home?
9) What would my parent's think of my "friends?"
10) What are my friends' (and there friend's) sites like?

The average teenager spends an hour and a half on myspace

When you say Yes to something (myspace, online time etc) you say NO to something else ( devotions, personal responsiblities, family time)

1 Coriinthians 2:14,15
Psalm 104:4

REMEMBER THIS CAN APPLY TO ANY JOURNALING SITE (livejournal, myspace, xanga etc..)

[ferdyflyer]

That's good stuff.... very applicable to anything, you're right.

thanks for sharing it!

go joey.

yeah, I'm not as totally against myspace as I make it out to be... i had one for a few weeks a while back... but the time thing totally is true, maybe an understatement.

[cubalinda]

thank you that was a very helpful outline which properly explained the concerns!

:)