Facebook: Faith or Folly?

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Facebook Faith or Folly?

• 1 Peter 29-12

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• FAITH Matthew 513-16
• Spread gospel (Acts 84)
• Scriptures
• Songs/comments
• Link Bible sites
• Study groups
• Teach the lost

• FOLLY Proverbs 1521
• Dangers (Prov 1223 1316)
• Pride, arrogance
• Anger, hate
• Gossip, backbiting
• Profanity
• Immodesty

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Follies and Temptations
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False Sense of Freedom from
Accountability Rom 1412

• Just keeping it real
• Just being myself
  (and thats always a good thing!)
• Only if the heart is right, Psa 1914 Matt
  1234-35
• Idle words are not innocent, Matt
  1236-37

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An Apparent Removal of Moral
Restraint, 2 Tim 222

• Viewed as freedom from bondage of moral
  restraints
• Disrespect for Gods law, Prov 2918
• FB shows removal of moral restraint
• Photos of immodesty and provocative poses, 1 Tim
  29-10 1 Jno 215
• Deny worldly lusts, Titus 212
• Pattern of good works, not moral abandonment,
  Titus 26-8

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An Apparent Removal of Moral
Restraint, 2 Tim 222

• Zero tolerance for sinful material on your wall
• No exceptions
• Delete offensive postings
• Defriend those who refuse to be decent
• Guard your influence, 1 Cor 1533 Titus 26-8 1
  Peter 211-12

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Holds up Privacy to Public
Display

• Commercial punch line Ive got to go embarrass
  myself on Facebook!
• Feeds on impulse Post before you think,
  Prov 1429
• Decency and decorum replaced with rudeness
• Private and even shameful things are publicly
  exposed, Eph 512
• Better to spare your words, Prov 1727-28 259-10

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Venue for Uncontrolled Tongues, Jas 35

• All kinds of hurtful words that disrupt, divide,
  destroy, Prov 1218
• Gossip, backbiting, spreading of rumors, evil
  suspicions, Prov 1113 2620 (1 Tim 64)
• Profanity, Eph 429

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Mindless Chatterand Worse Prov 133
1821

• Public consumption (consequences)
• Ridiculeboastful and unloving
• Profanitycoarse jesting and vulgarity (Eph
  429, 54)
• Rumors and gossiptale bearing (leads to
  bitterness and malice), Eph 431-32

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Can Consume Your Time Eph 516

• A third of online time in the U.S. is spent
  social networking, blogs, etc.
• More and more networking but less and less
  productivity! (Jno 94)
• Remember the importance of face to face
  contact, Prov 2717

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Easy to have Fellowship with those in Sin
Error, Eph 511

• Christians sin by socializing with unrepentant
  brethren who have been disciplined by the church,
  1 Cor 54-5, 11-13 2 Ths 36, 14-15
• No encouraging of error, 2 Jno 10-11
• Mark false, divisive men, Rom 1617
• How can we identify false teachers but then be
  friends with them on Facebook?

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A Word to Parents, Eph 64

• Know what your child is posting and reading on
  Facebook
• Dont be naïve get the facts
• Forbid indiscriminate friending monitor their
  contacts
• Such knowledge is vital to training our
  children in the way they should go, Prov 226

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Facebook Faith or Folly? 2 Cor
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