Earl Middleton

The challenge of Facebook for Christians is that Facebook tempts us to try to live in original nakedness while overlooking the fact that we are travailing in a broken world. It is literally ‘showing off’ our lives via pictures and status updates, and sharing what we think about pretty much EVERYTHING (against the proverbial injunction against uttering all one’s mind like a fool). It renders the biblical mandate to separate from some impossible or at least difficult. It creates a false sense of connection by allowing me to receive communiques from a person without ever giving any, thus violating the principle of reciprocity.