Mobile Ministry Magazine

Relevant Tech
Greetings all;
One of the major struggles that we have as believers is how to manage the multiple means of communication tools, family and ministry times, and personal moments that our respective lives bring to us. For the most part, many of us can say that we don't have a great time of managing those things and so anything that can make shorter the time in one area, and therefore reclaim time in another area, is something that we tend to hold onto.

With many of us, the relevancy of using technology is not then so much a question of how to best use it for work or within ministry, but whether it will get us to the point where we have time, more time than we have now, for those things that we deem as more important. And with that comes a different weight to technology and how it will be used.

I think of myself. I am single and work and church take up most of the time that I do have. For me, technology must be an enabler to keep me connected to people, and then a reminder of when and how often that I need to take personal time for God, and then personal time for me. For some of the others on the MMM team, they have families and therefore connecting aspects of technology go as far as keeping them tuned to what is going on in the world around them. Tech has to have that place of one part work, but another part of being releasable to letting them spend more time with their families and otherr obligations.

This doesn't discount the relevancy of technology as a whole, but places an emphasis on the fact that we need to use and direct technology in such a way that it is not a lord over us, but that it too is part of the earth that we steward as Adam was instructed in Genesis 3. We use this tech because it is relevant to specific aspects and modes of our lives, but we don't overuse it because the false light that we then shed is that tech is everything and everything is tech (instead of God is everything and loving Him is abovve all else).

Let us consider our usage of mobile tech to not just be pushing the envelope of what we can do, but also pushing the expectation of it that in our using of any technology is God-honoring and life serving (especially mobile tech that keeps us "connected").
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