Recently had a lunch with a few folks in Columbia, SC and the topic of the conversation turned to what I do. One of the descriptions given is that MMM asks the questions of how do we respond to life at the intersection of faith and mobile technology. For the first time that I can remember, I used the analogy of “different routes at that intersection.” And then went on to explain them.

There is this stoplight when our life/faith intersects with something that we are most passionate about. At that light, we make a decision.

• We take the road towards our faith/passion, and end up becoming overzealous towards that subject at the expense of growing in skills or application the technology.
• We take the road towards technology, becoming skilled and even efficient, but losing ourselves to it. In a sense, ascribing it to be a deity by which the rest of life will revolve.
• Or, we carve a new road. One where the prospects of our faith/passions follow the abilities of the technology to be a tool or enabler to ourselves and the lives of others. It’s not a straight path, and usually we are cutting a crooked road as we navigate the balance between the strong pulls of faith and technology.
• Bonus fourth realization: we choose that neither the paths we see or the one that we can create are good enough, so we turn around and go back to where we came from.

This was the analogy given towards that conversation. The response was in part, “I never thought of faith in that manner.” Then the conversation moved towards other topics of faith and life as we collectively realized that there is always some response – and in some manner, we are being called to be a witness to what we respond to (Acts 1:8).

I’d like to encourage you to think a bit about how faith and technology intersect, and how you are walking out or carving a path because of that intersection. Check your heart, are you getting what you truly desire (Psalm 37:4-5).