1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,760 For his eternal goodness, Lord Jesus, we thank you for today. 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:11,240 Oh, your forever lovely God, Amen. 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:15,480 Forever lovely Hallelujah. You can return to your seats 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,480 tonight. Amen. 5 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,520 Just a little of the next few Wednesdays. 6 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:32,880 And actually next Wednesday, brother Mason will be here and 7 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,920 he will be speaking to this congregation on that Wednesday 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,280 and the Wednesday after that is for the Zach Amen will be here 9 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,280 and speaking on that Wednesday as well. 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,280 And also of course, this coming Sunday is Father's Day Sunday 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:55,200 after that, you'll what we just kiddingly call Mason Sunday with 12 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,960 brother Mason, Jerry Mason in the morning, Alex Mason in the 13 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,360 evening. And so we'll have that too going 14 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,280 on. And also in this month, the the 15 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,720 last Friday of this month is a game night and followed by a 16 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,840 Sunday school picnic. Then on that Sunday as well, one 17 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,720 service on that Sunday, Pastor Merrill Weir will be here from 18 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,400 Terre Haute IN which is the secretary of the Indiana 19 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,840 District right now serving in that capacity. 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,360 And so he'll be here ministering the word of the Lord on that on 21 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,560 that Sunday morning. And we'll just have one service. 22 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,280 And it's also graduate Sunday for those who are changing 23 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,000 milestones of of education for that Sunday as well. 24 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,880 Amen. And so we are here tonight. 25 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,120 This is a little different format a few months ago or it's 26 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,360 yeah, it's probably been maybe months by now. 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,600 That did an interview with my wife on the art of personal 28 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,080 engagement. And then so for tonight, we 29 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,640 chose another topic and with brother Alex Mason, and that is 30 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,720 social media. Social media in the real world, 31 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,080 just by show of hands, how many people are at some level 32 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,800 involved with social media? Keep them up. 33 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,639 Keep them up. I see everybody's hands up 34 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:13,280 except maybe children. That would not be of age to be 35 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,800 able to be that or do that yet. So we want to talk about social 36 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,480 media in the real world tonight. And I, I asked for the Alex to 37 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:22,960 come alongside me here this evening. 38 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,840 And I don't know his exact degree. 39 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,400 He has a bachelor's degree and I think it was in the wheelhouse 40 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,760 of social media marketing. And so asked him to come. 41 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,120 And he's not only just been degreed in that, but over the 42 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:44,880 years he is also managed or helped others in the arena of 43 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,720 social media, even in our district social media, so on and 44 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,560 so forth. And so since just even by the 45 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,200 raising of hands tonight, we've seen just within this small 46 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,280 sector society that everybody to some level has involved. 47 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,800 Anybody remember Myspace days? Yeah. 48 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,120 And so then Myspace, you know, graduated into every space. 49 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,320 There's so many different venues out there of, of social media 50 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:17,200 that you can just gorge yourself, gorge yourself if if 51 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,080 you downloaded every app there was on social media and try to 52 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,680 keep up and all those, you don't have a life, all right? 53 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,680 You don't have a life. And so with all that being said, 54 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,320 there's influence with that. Here's the fact of the matter 55 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,440 that I know this is not some little niche and it's going 56 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,920 away. It's here to stay. 57 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,560 It's here to stay. It's a part of the warp and the 58 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,760 woof, the fabric now of humanity. 59 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,080 And so with that, as with any new thing that has come 60 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,920 throughout history, we got to learn how to interact with it 61 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,440 and we got to learn how to interact with it on a Christian 62 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,560 standard as well. And so with that being said, I, 63 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,560 I did some searching and, and maybe just as a disclaimer, 64 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,520 Brother Alex and I have not sat down. 65 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,680 This is just a total raw conversation. 66 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,160 All I've seen him is questions I'm going to ask him. 67 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,560 We have not discussed this. We've not sat down like this. 68 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,360 This is totally just from the heel of our, our, our feet. 69 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,840 All right. And so with that being said, I 70 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:21,000 did a little research. Over 5.07 billion people use 71 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,200 social media worldwide as of 2024. 72 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:32,760 So that's over 62% of the global population. 73 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,680 Just let that settle in for a moment, folks. 74 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,320 That's that's the the how prevailing. 75 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,440 I guess I should say that this is. 76 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,800 And so since that is the case, and since it is everywhere and 77 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,920 most people do use it and it's just a common aspect for us, the 78 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,360 question that I asked them without tonight is from a 79 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,400 marketing perspective, no doubt social media is a very powerful 80 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:06,840 tool of influence, but both positively and negatively, what 81 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,720 what makes it so powerful? Why, why, why is there so much 82 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,640 power that's been given to it, whether that be for good or for 83 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:16,840 bad in in today's. Culture. 84 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,200 I think the biggest thing with today's culture that social 85 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:27,360 media has such a hold is because it allows people to create a 86 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,840 perception. It perception is very powerful. 87 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:34,000 First hand impressions when you when you meet someone for the 88 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,640 first time is very powerful. When someone sees you on the 89 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:43,800 Internet for the first time, you get to gauge what they first see 90 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,640 of you. What do they see when they look 91 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:51,240 at your feed? I think you know so many 92 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,840 billions of of hours that have been spent on social media. 93 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,760 The reason that it is everyone's space, the reason it is not a 94 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:07,920 fad anymore is because people like to be able to do depict 95 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:09,440 something. Most often. 96 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,200 Not everyone in this room maybe, but I'm saying most often people 97 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,840 like to depict something that they want. 98 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,280 Maybe it's not necessarily that what they have. 99 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,960 So many times there have been peoples that, that have been 100 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,960 caught, people that have been influencers that have been 101 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,440 caught red handed out and about or something, not living the 102 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,560 luxurious life that they portray, right? 103 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,720 It's all about perception and they get caught and then they 104 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,680 have to answer for themselves because, you know, they did all 105 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,520 these fancy things because they decided to rent an Airbnb for 106 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,520 like 2 hours, do a bunch of videos, and then then leave the 107 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,720 Airbnb and go back to their, you know, their little hole in the 108 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,760 wall. And so it's, it's something that 109 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,160 I think it is so important in today's culture positively is 110 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,760 because we are able to have such a reach because people are 111 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,560 there, they're present that I always when people talk to me 112 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:11,080 about social media, there is the world that we presently live in 113 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,200 and there is the virtual world. We have to start looking at it 114 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,480 that way, the all of the different pages, landing pages, 115 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,360 social media platforms, everything. 116 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,400 It is a literal world within itself. 117 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:29,160 And so we can't, we can't just decide that that's just for the 118 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,200 young kids and everything like that. 119 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,600 And it really, really isn't when you when you go down the line of 120 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,280 so many different people at all age demographics use social 121 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,240 media. And so I think the positivity of 122 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,000 that is that we have a huge reach and and there are great 123 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,240 things. There are people that want to do 124 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,600 good in, in today's culture, but what is it that that the the old 125 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,920 saying is, is that bad news travels faster. 126 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,960 The bad things always travel faster, right? 127 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,000 And and that's just how it goes. That's that's what I think. 128 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,280 It's perspective. Perspective, perspective. 129 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:09,240 So some, some of what I'm hearing you say is then that 130 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,000 it's very possible for those two worlds that you speak of then 131 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 not necessarily be in harmony that that in some respects they 132 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,360 are two different worlds. Yeah, two different worlds. 133 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,840 But the same time you're telling me that that because there is 134 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,360 that other world on a positive side, that if we only live in 135 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,960 this world right here, that, that there may be a segment of 136 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,080 society, even those that may live in that world more than in 137 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,280 this world. I I think that could be a 138 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:42,360 possibility. Then then we're missing, missing 139 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:47,520 the opportunity to to connect, to to have a voice, to have an 140 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,680 influence in that life that doesn't necessarily necessarily 141 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:53,040 maybe interact as much as in the real world. 142 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,520 I don't know what's called the real world, which, which what's 143 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,880 real anymore, but nonetheless the real world and then then the 144 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,400 digital world, at least that's what I'm hearing. 145 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,480 And so when we look at this again, I've got some lead 146 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,200 insurance and stats and most of my things will be leading from 147 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,640 stats here tonight. But the average user, everyone 148 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,600 say average, right? That means there's highs and 149 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:16,680 there's lows that get to this number, correct? 150 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:22,520 So the average user scrolls through about 300 feet of 151 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:27,880 content per day, and that's about the height of the Statue 152 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,120 of Liberty. Now, to put that in perspective, 153 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,640 I thought about this today, brother Fred. 154 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,800 To put that in perspective, I got a small phone compared to 155 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,600 most. This is a iPhone 13 mini. 156 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:45,120 From bottom to top is 5 inches. That would mean in order for me 157 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:50,800 to meet the average of of 300 feet a day of scrolling, I will 158 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,720 have taken my thumb from the bottom of my screen to the top 159 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,240 of my screen 720 times within a day. 160 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,360 That's just the average. Somebody's beaten that, 161 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,520 somebody's beaten that. And so if all that said, how can 162 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:12,840 churches, how can churches, how can believers? 163 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,800 There's so much being communicated in social media, 164 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,960 true, false, whatever, so much being communicated, our world 165 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,040 saturated with it really are in the information age. 166 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,520 We are saturated with information. 167 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,880 So with all of that noise of saturation of information and 168 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,760 such and the constant scrolling, how, how can the church, how can 169 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:40,480 us believers have a message that will somehow get reach, catch 170 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,680 the attention of 520 swipes on a phone? 171 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,480 I think the important thing we have to realize is. 720 on the 172 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,120 stated yes sorry I missed 2. My phone's not that small. 173 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,720 That would have been a flip phone, sorry. 174 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,200 When we have this opportunity, but it is there is so much 175 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,280 saturation it you're not hurting to get something on the 176 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,840 algorithm. You're not hurting to when you 177 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,720 open your, your, you know, Facebook, Instagram, whatever. 178 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:20,600 If you open it, the algorithm's not like I got to find something 179 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,080 new for I can configure. That map. 180 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:27,000 There is loads of new for you. I have a statistic now. 181 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,520 This is a year ago but I had a statistic talking about I think 182 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:37,960 it was on Instagram. Instagram in particular, 66,000 183 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,880 photos are shared to Instagram every minute. 184 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,280 And that's why you can't find a photo album at all, right? 185 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:49,920 Now, that's right, but to take that in there, there is no lack 186 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,800 of content. So we have to take it with 187 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,520 clarity and creativity and decide what is First off, what's 188 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:03,000 important and then also how can we respectively, how can we not 189 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,320 be boring, right? This is this was back when I was 190 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,760 in in college. Now this was in 2019. 191 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,000 Statistics stated that you have to have content that can get can 192 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,920 hold the attention span of a goldfish, which is like 3 193 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,800 seconds. Now that was 2019 that that is 194 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:27,200 drastically changed I'm certain to where it is probably 2 point 195 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,800 whatever, one point whatever because it has to be 196 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:32,800 instantaneous. It can't be boring. 197 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,800 So when people are scrolling, how is it not boring? 198 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,760 Well, nowadays, because you, you think, oh, I'm going to be hip 199 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,280 with the kids, right? I'm going to do all this fancy 200 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:43,280 stuff. We're going to get the 201 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,960 microphone, We're going to get a, a big camera. 202 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,360 Well, actually, the more you look into it, the best reach you 203 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,080 get, the best things that you can get viewers on is actually 204 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,760 going to be something that is maybe, maybe pastors just 205 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,520 sitting there with a selfie on his on his phone talking it it, 206 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,960 it, it blows my mind because I love to do the the stuff that 207 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,760 looks really nice, everything like that. 208 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,800 But when it's real, when it's real, they notice. 209 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,120 And that is, and it's further down the line. 210 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,080 But that is why it's important to understand that that's going 211 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,880 to become even more of a thing when AI takes more. 212 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,160 If you know me, I'm a believer in IAI. 213 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,080 I love AI, but that is what's going to happen is it's going to 214 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,080 become more real. Content is going to be the thing 215 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,400 that's pushed the most. And so, you know, that was 216 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,560 already a trend before AI even came on because we went through 217 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:42,160 this stage, you know, some people older than me and, and 218 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,840 partially me, there were that stage on, on Instagram and 219 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,760 Facebook where everything needed to be produced and really, 220 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,400 really look nice and everything. And then you have, you know, I 221 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,600 some of the best things I get on, on the district social 222 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,000 media, especially on the youth pages, everything like it's just 223 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,800 memes. I can crank memes out all day, 224 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,320 but then I spend, you know, a few, a few 30 minutes here, 30 225 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,080 minutes there on a graphic, everything like that. 226 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,200 And it gets like half the views. I'm like, well, I'm glad I 227 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:10,320 worked really hard. Yeah. 228 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,160 And so. The meme was pixelated and 229 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,680 everything. It was pixelated and everything. 230 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:17,760 And they're like, this is the stuff right here, right? 231 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,760 And so it, you don't need to be flashy, you don't need to be 232 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,920 fake, but it's just, it's just being real to the core. 233 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,760 Whatever that looks like, it doesn't mean it can't look nice. 234 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,280 Whatever you're doing in order to get a message across, 235 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,640 especially a church or someone that's trying to be be 236 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,000 intentional about spreading the gospel. 237 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,640 But there is just, there is a good thing about just simplicity 238 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,720 because people catch it and they're like, oh, that's, that's 239 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,800 new, that's different. Got a bunch of stuff rolling 240 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,760 through my head from all of that just now. 241 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,440 And it may not tongue in groove totally with that, but as you're 242 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,560 talking about that, that, that scrolling aspect, like in a in a 243 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,960 millisecond, right, you're deciding whether or not that's 244 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,760 interesting to you or not interested to you. 245 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,280 If it's not, you know, there's something else right behind it. 246 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,840 And you go, you go, you go. And and I don't know if this 247 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,560 there's probably there's problem here out there. 248 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,600 I don't have stats with me here on this right now. 249 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,720 But, and I just tell you my personal belief that I think 250 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,760 that's conditioned us for the three second or less attention 251 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,080 span of the goatfish, not only whenever it comes to matters 252 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,480 like that, when it comes to any matters of life, when it comes 253 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,720 to church, being here in the service, we're sitting there, 254 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,680 the preacher's talking, but you're scrolling. 255 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:37,080 You're scrolling if it's not entering enough. 256 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,280 And here's the other fact of that. 257 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,760 Let's say you have the whatever, you know, amount of video it is, 258 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,640 it's still relatively short compared to a full service. 259 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:49,360 And you're getting snippets of Scripture, snippets of 260 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,640 information when we need the whole counsel of God and 261 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,880 people's building thoughts and feelings on the snippet rather 262 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,080 than the complete whole. And we're doing ourselves a 263 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,800 disservice. And we're causing our 264 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:08,600 Christianity to be built on here and there averse rather than the 265 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,600 full competium of the word of God. 266 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,840 And as a result of that, that's where a lot of people have 267 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,400 gotten in danger anyway. They've built doctrines off a 268 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,960 verse rather than building it off from Genesis to Revelation. 269 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:25,000 And so with that, we got to, that's the culture thing, but we 270 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,800 got to keep culture to a certain degree. 271 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,840 I understand there's some meshing and overlaying of 272 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,280 culture and church culture, but we also, there's got to be a 273 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,240 little bit of a separation between the two. 274 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,600 At the same there is a submersion, but there's also got 275 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,080 to be a notable separation of the two at the same time. 276 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,920 And so speaking about some common mistakes, let's just look 277 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:47,440 at this here for a moment. 74% of people say they have searched 278 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,280 for a church online before ever visiting in person. 279 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,240 It's it's modern statistics, 74% of the people. 280 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,240 And the reason why this is so mind blowing because years ago 281 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:05,520 Bishop it was curb appeal where the church sat, how the lawn was 282 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:11,160 kept it it was how the restrooms were when they came in, it was 283 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,720 the host, our Hostess that greeted them as they come in. 284 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,800 But now the face of the church is backed all the way up from 285 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:23,319 1121 Cedar St. to the Facebook happenings, the Instagram 286 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,040 happenings and those that say that they go to that church, 287 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:36,360 their social happenings, right? Because the church, the church 288 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:41,360 isn't a building, church isn't walls and fabric drywall. 289 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:49,040 Church is the people. And so it's not just what is on 290 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,880 the church sites, it's what's on the sites of those that are 291 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,760 connected to that church. And so, with all that being 292 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,480 said, what are some of the common mistakes Christians, or 293 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,120 ministries, even in church for that matter, make on social 294 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:07,680 media that hurt their witness and reduce their impact in their 295 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,680 community, their world, and as broad as that circle can go? 296 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:16,880 So what I will say is social media is addictive. 297 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:23,720 It was designed to be social. It has become a dopamine hit. 298 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,880 Oh, absolutely. The the reward pathways of likes 299 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,000 and comments and seeing your blow, your phone blow up and 300 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,040 everything like that, your attention deficit and memory and 301 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,680 everything like that. Cognitive load, right is focused 302 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,840 and hyper fixated on on social media. 303 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:47,200 I say that to say we, we treat because I see people treat 304 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:52,560 social media as a megaphone instead of a conversation and 305 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,840 they take it. They take it and they're, I'm 306 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,360 going to say whatever I want to. This is a free country and 307 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,120 freedom of speech, freedom of speech. 308 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,080 I'm going to go here. I'm going to say what I say. 309 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,560 And if someone doesn't like it and they get in my comments, 310 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,800 then I'll just argue back with them. 311 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,440 It is, it is a mess. And, and you are, you are 312 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:17,200 broadcasting the wrong witness when you do so People, I see 313 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,920 people and, and they misconstrue it. 314 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,440 I see people talk about, well, if Paul, if Paul had social 315 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,800 media in his day, he wouldn't be quiet and blah, blah, blah. 316 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,280 I'm like, well, OK, but you're misconstruing it because you're, 317 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:29,880 you're basing it off of the, the pistols, which were toward 318 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:34,120 Beavers, right? These people on social media, 319 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:38,320 not all of them are believers. And so. 320 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,640 Yes. And so when we take that gauge 321 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,000 and say, well, Paul would have done this, well, we probably 322 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,360 wouldn't have unless it was a group, It was a it was a 323 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:49,920 Facebook group and it was social media Facebook group. 324 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,400 And then he was like, you know, whip him in the shape. 325 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,200 But in that in that case, that is not what this is. 326 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,960 And so when we decide we're going to get on our high horse 327 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,040 or anything like that, it is sending the wrong message. 328 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:12,360 Do you believe that? Because there's that you can do 329 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:15,120 that in literal isolation, right? 330 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:17,320 What you put up, you can do in literal isolation. 331 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,000 You're by yourself. Nobody's around you and your 332 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,360 phone, you and your computer, that sometimes there is a 333 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:30,080 forgetting that this isn't just you and whoever you want it to 334 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:35,000 be intended for. This is you and any follower 335 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,480 that you're connected to that have access, that you've given 336 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,640 access to your thing, the thing that they would be great 337 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,120 important. Fred, if I can't tell you that 338 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,320 without those other thousand people sitting in the same room 339 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,320 with me and you and this stool right across from me, then 340 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,080 there's no reason for me to say it there, right? 341 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:58,560 That is right, 100 percent, 100%. 342 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,960 And I might have. I think, I think one thing that 343 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,200 we have to take note of in general, not even not even the 344 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,960 controversial stuff, is that respectfully, not everyone needs 345 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:15,360 to know your business 24/7. I had tuna today, it was Hickory 346 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:17,000 smoked. Yeah, I mean. 347 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,680 The back of chips. Back in the Myspace and and and 348 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,040 early Facebook days, people were were posting about how, hey, 349 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,920 just sitting on the toilet just chilling. 350 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,480 I'm like, no one needs to know. No one needs to know. 351 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:35,280 I say that to say that you can become a little oversharing and 352 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,880 then you become a little too transparent and then again you 353 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,960 misrepresent the church or you misrepresent God. 354 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,080 Maybe you're just being honest about a situation that you had 355 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:49,800 today or and you know you had you had a moment, right That 356 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:55,320 momentary time of moment that you decide to click send is it 357 00:21:55,360 --> 00:22:00,080 lives forever in the Internet. Whereas if you you know, there 358 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,280 are times that I have things that I want to say. 359 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,680 And if you look at my social media, most of the times it's 360 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,440 not me posting unless it's my story. 361 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,880 You do not see me posting. It's normally sharing stuff from 362 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:15,320 places that I post on pages and, and those, those type of things 363 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,200 when you, when you have something that you just feel 364 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,960 like you got to get out whatever it is. 365 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,320 Now, if you can keep a bathroom log, whatever. 366 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:29,560 But with that, I say I'm joking. But with that, I say, get your 367 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,320 notes app out, type out what you want to type out, get it out of 368 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:37,040 your system and be done with it. Be done with it. 369 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,200 Too many people are too transparent on the Internet. 370 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,680 And then whether well intended or not, right? 371 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,960 If it's well intended, then they have to backtrack and they have 372 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,920 to apologize. I didn't mean this or I didn't 373 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,600 mean that blah, blah, blah. Or if if they didn't mean it 374 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,040 that way, then when when people are saying blah blah blah, then 375 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,840 they have to buckle down and then it becomes a whole argument 376 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,960 once again. Yeah, because to the point even 377 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,480 of of brother Jerry Mason and leadership training stuff 378 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,120 people's been in around here, you know, he stole some more on 379 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:08,200 occasion. You can't detect tone. 380 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,800 You can't detect by body language. 381 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,920 Those things are absent to a great degree through the written 382 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,200 word. It's subject to interpretation 383 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,840 many times. And sometimes that 384 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,520 interpretation is based upon where you are right in that 385 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:27,480 moment. And the last thing I would say 386 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,040 as far as killing credibility and trying to you know mistakes 387 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:37,880 is not every trend is worth writing, not not every hot take 388 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:45,840 needs your input and it is OK influence with discernment when 389 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,160 when it comes to what you are doing, what you are posting, 390 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,520 anything like that. Think about the consequences, 391 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,880 positive or negative. What are the consequences if I 392 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:03,160 post XY and Z, especially if it is supposed to be a hot take or 393 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,600 anything like that. And you, you're doing, you're 394 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,200 taking to the Internet and you're taking charge with this, 395 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,240 this group discussion, so to speak. 396 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,160 Think about what the consequence could be because it may not be a 397 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,440 good one. All right. 398 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,160 Continuing on here, then, in marketing, effective messaging 399 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,680 is built around knowing your audience, an idea that was 400 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,320 echoed in First Corinthians 922. The apostle Paul said, I made 401 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,720 all things to all men, that by all means I might save some. 402 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,080 And I believe it's important to understand Paul was not 403 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,880 endorsing, compromising, but establishing lines of of 404 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,840 commonality to perhaps start a conversation or to launch from. 405 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,680 With that in mind, what principles? 406 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,520 When I say principles, I'm talking about values, attitudes, 407 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,400 opinions, so and so forth. What principles from your 408 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,760 marketing background do you think are especially helpful for 409 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,720 believers engaging on social media? 410 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:08,920 Be be true to who if it's a if it's church based, be true to 411 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,640 who your church is, right? Don't don't go and, you know, 412 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,440 share things or do things on social media that are not 413 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,320 reflecting of your church. Yeah, that contradict that 414 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,200 contradict. As as a person when when you are 415 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:31,240 trying to reach and land your message, it's not going to land 416 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,520 if you don't understand who you are dealing with. 417 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,000 Again, majority of the people that you are probably connected 418 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,960 to are more than likely, unless you have a very, very small 419 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,960 friends list, more than likely the majority of them are going 420 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,880 to not be going to church or not be truth church. 421 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,800 And so how is it going to land? Is it going to float in the 422 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,400 feed? Because it wasn't interesting. 423 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,520 It was offensive right off the bat. 424 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,760 It didn't come off lovingly. You know, we need to think about 425 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,080 things when it comes to that, you know, principles, so to 426 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,240 speak, especially when you connect the, the marketing 427 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,120 aspect to church. Is it, is it love? 428 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,040 Is it, is it Jesus? You know, is it, is it Jesus to 429 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,720 somebody? Because all things to all men. 430 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,480 That's not compromise, but that is strategy. 431 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,440 And to lean on also the impossible, he said. 432 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:28,000 I, I've come not to, not to know anything among you save Jesus 433 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,880 Christ and him crucified. That's what he said. 434 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,960 Now that's a very narrow focus, but it's the best focus. 435 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,280 That's right. And, and when, when you have 436 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:41,400 that focus, you know, we, we can spend tons of time crafting the 437 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,320 right voice and making sure that we come across the right way and 438 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:50,840 the visuals and the messaging. But when it comes to online, you 439 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,880 have just a few seconds to connect. 440 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,920 So what is your purpose here? What is your purpose here? 441 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,840 If you're, if you're wanting to talk about God's love today, 442 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,240 then you, you need to start because I've seen this is a, 443 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:05,320 this is something that's a, that's a trend for, for 444 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,440 influencers. But I think it's important, even 445 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,800 it, it's, it's partially not burying the lead. 446 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,960 What I mean by that is they will start a video and then it will 447 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,240 be like a portion of a like a really, really good part and 448 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,040 it'll cut right to the beginning of it. 449 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,440 And then you, you're interested. What were they talking about, 450 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,720 right? You could do that in your 451 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,400 message, your text too. You could, you could say blah, 452 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:30,920 blah, blah, blah, blah dot dot dot dot. 453 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,240 And then you could go into the beginning of it. 454 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,760 And that's actually in the meat of it. 455 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,680 So, so thinking about how am I going to engage even if it's a 456 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,640 difficult topic? I think, I think even if it's 457 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,960 especially a difficult topic, if it's a difficult topic, but 458 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,680 you're approaching it with love, put just a little teensy bit of 459 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,480 the controversial side of it in there and then what do you have? 460 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,400 You have love, love, love, love, controversy, love, love, love, 461 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,400 love, love, right? And so at first it piques their 462 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,640 interest on what what's going on, but then they read it, they 463 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,240 read it more and then they realize, oh, OK, that's really 464 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,680 nice. That's you know, I love the way 465 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,760 they said that. And so, you know, even just how 466 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,600 are you going about this? You know, it doesn't even have 467 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,720 to be steer clear of XYZ topic, but how am I going about this 468 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:19,720 again? Is it love? 469 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,400 Is it Jesus? Is it, is it compassion? 470 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,840 Is it, is it are you being passionate? 471 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,600 There's nothing wrong with that, but are you being passionate in 472 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,400 the right way where you're you're nudging and not pushing? 473 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,880 Right, the scripture says, I think it's a New Testament. 474 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:42,000 If not, it may be in the old says to speak the truth and love 475 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,520 and the reason being is truth by itself can be so poignant 476 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:52,360 sometime just by itself unscathed. 477 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:57,080 It's just it's just totally or out of the out of the the 478 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,760 swords, you know thing. It is just poignant and so it's 479 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,640 got to be bathed in love sometimes just because it by 480 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,440 itself can be quite like in your face. 481 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,920 It's truth. Yes, brother Boyd just always 482 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,560 said you've probably heard me say before you can show someone 483 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,680 the point of the sword without plunging them through with it. 484 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,880 And so true sometimes got to be spoken in love. 485 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaking of the the controversial things that leads 486 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,080 me into the next thing posts that posts that spark outrage, 487 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,880 humor or controversy statistically generate up to 70% 488 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,720 more engagement. So there you had it. 489 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,360 You know the snafu even when they're here's the catch, even 490 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,960 when they're inauthentic, even when it's false. 491 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:48,400 So I a scripture that came my mind today as I reread this lead 492 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,920 in that I was going to use and I I read Romans 14 one and this is 493 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,880 from the amplified Bible. It says, As for the one whose 494 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,400 faith is weak, accept him into your fellowship, but not for the 495 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,040 purpose of quarreling over his opinions. 496 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,960 And the King James, that's doubtful disputations. 497 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,000 So with that, I say the question is, how can Christians stay 498 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,520 visible and relevant online without compromising 499 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,040 authenticity or resorting just to click bait, Right? 500 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,920 Whatever, Whatever is just going to bait. 501 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,200 And yeah, got those numbers going up. 502 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,400 The bait and switch is very tempting, right? 503 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:28,040 The idea of doing something controversial to get that maybe 504 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,680 it's just that dopamine hit, you know, in your brain or just to 505 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,320 get the, the view and the, the repertoire of people. 506 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,320 People are, you know, looking at my stuff, right? 507 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,040 It's tempting, but we have to lead with value, not with 508 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,680 vanity, right? We, we can, we can be bold and 509 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:52,040 creative without, without being fake, without doing something. 510 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,840 Because what eventually, especially if it's inauthentic 511 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:01,280 content, if it's inauthentic substance, eventually people 512 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,480 will catch on. You will get called out for 513 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,920 whatever it is, just like I talked about with the people 514 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,040 and, and thinking that people thinking that they live this 515 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,480 luxurious, you will get called out. 516 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,480 It will happen. So the question is, is, is it 517 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,320 worth, is the temptation of chasing the, the dopamine hit 518 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,640 and the likes and the shares and the follows and everything like, 519 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:28,880 is that worth the eventual downfall of, of I mean, really 520 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,280 of your, your public image? Because that's really what 521 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,320 social media is. We don't think of it that way, 522 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,360 but it's it's a public image and it's tailored like we talked 523 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,760 about, but it is your public image. 524 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,840 And so if it's costing your witness, is it worth doing it 525 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,760 just for the temptation of that that dopamine hit all? 526 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:51,680 Right. So we have already talked a 527 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,720 little bit. You made earlier mention about 528 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,520 videos getting a lot of traction in the social media world and 529 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:03,240 video posts, especially short form Reels or Tik Toks can earn 530 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:08,280 up to 12 times more shares than text or photo post only. 531 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,760 And I'm just outsider looking in on this and I'm thinking, well, 532 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,080 video of course, is engaging more than one sense. 533 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,800 They can see, they can hear, you know, those and perhaps start 534 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,040 feeling, you know, as a result of those things. 535 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,840 It's not just reading the post. So another other sensors are 536 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:30,040 being plus it's a little bit more effortless mindlessly 537 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,800 watching something than engaging my brain to read something, so 538 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,840 and so forth. So how can someone create 539 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,240 content that's both spiritually faithful and genuinely engaging 540 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:45,480 in today's fast moving digital culture since based upon those 541 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,160 type of things? If if you're planning on doing 542 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,840 that and using video form content and it start with truth 543 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,840 and wrap it up in story, right, People like a good story. 544 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,920 So I've seen some people talk about it and they, they depict, 545 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,400 maybe you're depicting a, a, a Bible story. 546 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,720 And so you, you decide to wrap it up in, in a very, very story 547 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,760 esque way. Maybe some people, maybe they 548 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,560 like to do animation and so they'll do it in an animated way 549 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,400 and it's telling, telling the Bible, but it's via video form 550 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:26,000 content or or maybe it is a message, right, a sermon, but 551 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,680 they decide to to reallocate it to a story form and talk about 552 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,640 it in, in in an application standpoint. 553 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,160 You know, some sometimes that's no more towards the end of the 554 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,760 message or you know, kind of the come to Jesus moment at the end 555 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,240 of the message. But maybe it's maybe you it's 556 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,920 reformed in more of a wrap up session, so to speak, because I 557 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:54,080 would dare say on average, the the average video is going to be 558 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,680 between 30 to 60 seconds. That's. 559 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,000 What I was going to ask, what's too long? 560 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,600 What's 30 to 60 seconds? The videos that Pastor makes, 561 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,160 they're too long. I appreciate that. 562 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:11,159 So what I would say about that is if you're planning on 563 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,159 building an audience, you need both. 564 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,840 You need the short, the really short form, maybe 30 seconds or 565 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,600 less, 60 seconds and then have the longer form. 566 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:22,960 There's gonna be different audiences. 567 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,679 There's. Different audiences and when you 568 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:28,880 get people and somebody like I kind of like this person, they 569 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,400 don't care. And then they're like, I'm gonna 570 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,639 go see what else they have. And then they're watching, you 571 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:36,520 know, people watch hours of videos of, of someone doing 572 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,679 something because they saw a shorter form of it. 573 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,080 And so maybe just a mixture of that, you know, it's not 574 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,440 necessarily that, you know, stay away from, you know, a minute or 575 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,920 longer video or anything like that. 576 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,560 It's you need a little bit of this and you need a little bit 577 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,960 of that and, and mix it all together because then you'll 578 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:59,880 have people have people come in for both and, and it's, it's, 579 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,080 it's something about showing, showing, you know, don't just 580 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,720 say that Jesus changes live. Show it, you know, bring just 581 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:11,520 just as someone would minister the gospel in a sermon and talk 582 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,960 about miracles. Maybe they, they decide to tie 583 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:20,280 in miracles that they've seen or present, present a story or 584 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,960 something that they have researched about a, a notable 585 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,760 miracle or something like that. Other than just the Bible that 586 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,000 we have to, to glean from, you know, don't just say it, show 587 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,640 it. How can, how can you show it? 588 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,880 How can you depict it? Maybe it's just with your words. 589 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,400 Maybe, maybe you're able to wordsmith it just right to where 590 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,120 you know someone can see it, just like someone's reading a 591 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,480 book and they're, they're seeing the, the tapestry, the tapestry 592 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,760 in their head and everything. But don't just say it, just also 593 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,720 show it. Because I'd much rather use 594 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:51,360 words personally. When we first started doing 595 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,160 videos around here and I'm looking over here about the 596 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,200 cameras over there and dropped my eyes everywhere because I 597 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,800 felt intimidated by the camera, like I was looking in somebody's 598 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,040 eyes. And I was so nonetheless. 599 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,160 Yeah, So with, with all that and said and speaking about pastors 600 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,480 and the ministries of churches and it's reached on so forth. 601 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,520 Many pastors now churches even let's throw in there, have more 602 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,600 followers online than they do members in their congregation, 603 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:25,280 making their digital presence a real extension of the building 604 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,120 or a real extension of the pulpit. 605 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,440 Case in point, this is just me personally. 606 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,240 I have two forms of social media I I participate on and that at a 607 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,760 very, very limited level. If anybody follows me, you know 608 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,320 that. But anyway, that is like 609 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,760 Facebook. I have 1058 friends on Facebook 610 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,800 and 556 friend requests that are waiting on me to say something 611 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,240 to them. Some of those probably go years 612 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:53,280 back bless their hearts. I have 721 followers on XI have 613 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,520 had people reach out to me that I don't know from Adam's house 614 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,600 cat due to how do you give pastors ministry the churches 615 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,640 right, because we're online here, even the Night Live 616 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,800 stream. See here we are social media 617 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,360 Facebook. What what kind of what kind of 618 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,360 advice do you give them in trying to get their social media 619 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,640 to effectively be used right personally and as a church wise, 620 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,800 but also without it becoming then a sideline distraction in 621 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,880 personalized right because we can get so it's a tool, right. 622 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,880 It's all how you use the tool. And So what I would say with 623 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,480 that and, and, and you're right, it doesn't matter where where 624 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,400 people see you, they see you. Oh, I'm going to add them as 625 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:42,080 every time, every time. Evangelist Michael Maupin or for 626 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:43,520 the Josh Wilson goes out of the country. 627 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,640 I think I get like 20 friend requests. 628 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,480 Because you're connected. Because because I'm connected. 629 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,280 To the part of the network. Part of the network. 630 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,120 Someone from Siberia. That's right. 631 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:57,600 So, but but with that for pastors and, and people, people 632 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,520 in ministry and and church ministries, I think the, the, 633 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,840 the important thing is for, for pastors is post to pastor. 634 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,840 Don't. Don't post to perform right? 635 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,280 Everybody has a pulpit. Everybody has a pulpit. 636 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:14,840 In today's world, everybody has a pulpit. 637 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,160 It's very good. It's very good. 638 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,600 And just as a side note, and everybody's pulpit is a Holy 639 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:25,680 Ghost filled everybody's pulpit. And yet we're purporting 640 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:33,240 unsanctioned verbiage has no prayer life behind it, no fast 641 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,280 life behind it. Right, right. 642 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,600 Be know what well you're drawing from. 643 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,040 Right. That's right. 644 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,640 Know what? Well, you're drawing from. 645 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:48,040 Yeah, because I think we have to be, we have to be, you said 646 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,440 becoming without it becoming a distraction. 647 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,040 We have to be practical. Pastors only have so much time 648 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,080 on what, what am I doing? You know, if it's, if it's 649 00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,960 personal content, but it's a pastor, then then you know, 650 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:03,280 it's, it's what, what is today's purpose? 651 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,280 Or maybe it's a batch of, of content. 652 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,040 It's a batch of videos. People do that and then they get 653 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,960 it all and they schedule, fill it out, but stay, stay 654 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,200 accountable. Know when to log off, know when 655 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,280 to set it to the side. Don't do it. 656 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,160 Don't do it for views. Don't do it for anything except 657 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,240 for the fact. Again, this is down to the 658 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,680 personal level. If you're if you're doing it for 659 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,720 the the spreading of the gospel, then keep it specific to that. 660 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,160 Don't focus on, oh, I got this video is blowing up everything. 661 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,520 No, no, the gospel is blowing up. 662 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,160 Can we speak on common terms even about this? 663 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,960 Yeah, go ahead. Right, that that is interrupting 664 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,480 important aspects of our personal life, attention shown 665 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,600 to our children. Or we want a digital connection 666 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,080 to the church rather than a personal connection with the 667 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:59,680 church. Then there's aspects of that. 668 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:04,320 Or we might need to find the slide bar to to pull and rein 669 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,600 that back in. It's been this social media, 670 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,760 like OTFT you say is a old hag in a new dress. 671 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,000 What I'm saying is things have come across technologically and 672 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,560 not even beyond that into our world that we've always had to 673 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,760 approach with senses of moderation. 674 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:30,520 Yeah, television, the Internet, social in the next decade, all 675 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,840 these things are great and wonderful tools when used in the 676 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,800 proper manner, but they can also be our shortfall if we allow 677 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,400 them to master us. That's. 678 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,760 Right, that is. Right, right. 679 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,280 And so I, I think finding the harmony, whether pastor, church 680 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,920 or whatever it, it can become a distraction. 681 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,840 If, if, if, I mean, if our phones got to go to the we can't 682 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:50,920 do the restroom without the phone. 683 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,320 We can't eat a meal without the phone. 684 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,320 We can't drive down the road without also on the phone, 685 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:56,920 right? That's right. 686 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,520 Take a pulse. Take a pulse because something, 687 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:06,120 something has you, something has your attention. 688 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,080 And so we got to be conscious about that. 689 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,280 I'm going to skip one question. I'm going to go to another one. 690 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,880 According to surveys, 54% of Gen. 691 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,000 Z, how many Gen. Z's? 692 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,840 That's from like 1997 to around 2012 birth years. 693 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:20,600 Got some Gen. Z's around there. 694 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:21,800 You know I got some Gen. Z's. 695 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,360 According to survey, 54% of Gen. Z's aspire to become social 696 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,920 media influencers. And I almost throw up in my 697 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:34,920 mouth when I say that the only reason why there is just 698 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,920 something about the aspect of a influencer that there are some 699 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,440 that is pride, egotism. Oh, yeah. 700 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,400 Because think about it. You have influence because 701 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,200 you've made something to a certain degree about you. 702 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,800 And then you can shove it off on product and so on and so forth. 703 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,800 Oh, yeah. OK Oh, my God, help me anyway. 704 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,360 And so the question is, what would you say to young 705 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:04,640 Christians who want to become influencers but want to do it 706 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,880 with integrity and perfect? Here's the reason why I say that 707 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,160 because when I was a kid growing up, the old timers told us some 708 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,520 proverbs that a man's gift will make room for him and bring him 709 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,360 before great men. You didn't toot your own whore. 710 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,160 You didn't tell how good you were and how much you knew and 711 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,640 all this stuff. It just happened because God's 712 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,600 hand of favor was upon you. And it happened just by default 713 00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:27,680 through natural organic progression. 714 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,840 Nobody was going around saying I know this and I know that and 715 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,040 I'm better than that person. That's. 716 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:38,680 Right. But now it's great that you're a 717 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:45,560 star and it's a great that you figured life out when other 718 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,280 people have it and they're going to come groveling into your 719 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,120 presence to sit at your feet of wisdom. 720 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,840 And so that's the reason why I get bad taste in my mouth. 721 00:42:55,080 --> 00:43:02,240 But anyway, so how do we do this than with integrity, if there's 722 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,520 going to be maybe that label's been put on you, you have put 723 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,560 that label on yourself. How's that done with Biblical 724 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,520 integrity I. Think. 725 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,640 Yes, the minefield has just been set. 726 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:22,520 You're welcome. Does whatever you're doing cuz, 727 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:27,880 cuz on average we could take those 54% and if it's, if it's 728 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,680 Christian content, it's going to be a much smaller percentage. 729 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:36,360 But whatever you're doing, is it representing Jesus well, first 730 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:41,640 and foremost is it, are you representing Jesus well? 731 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,960 The next thing is keeping your character in check. 732 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,640 You need people that in your life, not your family, you 733 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,760 unless, unless you're just very, very able to be very transparent 734 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,720 with them and they're able to be very transparent with you. 735 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,280 You need people in your life that can tell you you need cool 736 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:04,840 down, you get a little prideful, you, you need to stop. 737 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,800 You need a break, whatever, whatever that is. 738 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,160 You need people in your life that can bring, bring the reins 739 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,600 in on you and tell you when enough is enough, right? 740 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:20,160 Again, again, it is it. No one intends to become 741 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,120 addicted to to anything, but especially for social media, no 742 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,160 one intends for that. It's just when when it starts to 743 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,240 grow and it starts to build and you're just like, Oh my 744 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:31,560 goodness, you know, the excitement is understandable. 745 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,040 Sure. But overall, then after a little 746 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,360 while, are you chasing it? And then it becomes again that 747 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:39,880 addictive measure. The motive. 748 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,000 The motive of it is important, yes. 749 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,960 And it's easy, it's a slide from what started out as good motive 750 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:54,400 and get snafu D by what you said, then the increase of this 751 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,840 or that, whatever is happening, there's a switch then a motive 752 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,560 and you can tell when it happens. 753 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:06,320 You can tell when that occurs. Don't chase trends that will 754 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,160 compromise something, right? There are plenty of trends out 755 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:11,320 there. There are plenty of things out 756 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,480 there that people do and people laugh at and it gets a lot of 757 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:19,160 views just because it's connected to, connected to a 758 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,440 filter, it's connected to an audio, anything like that. 759 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,320 Don't do it just because this is the popular thing, because it 760 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,920 may compromise something. Don't do it because it 761 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,880 compromises. And that really is, you know, 762 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,200 leading to our next question concerning trends about trends, 763 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,600 because there's things that come about all the time, whether it's 764 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,760 an audio, whether it's some type of theme or something. 765 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,560 And it may not align with with biblical values. 766 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,440 Not only that it may be very trickery that maybe what's said 767 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:51,560 seems to the ears something good, but where it came from is 768 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,440 vulgar and profane. And and the stuff that's 769 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,440 attached to that, when you repost it, if someone digs just 770 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,080 one more in, it's like, I can't believe they follow that page. 771 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,680 You know, their little thing out there sounded so wholesome and 772 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,080 innocent, you know, to begin with. 773 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,240 And then you see what they stand for, what they represent or 774 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:15,120 common, what it is. And, and, and so how, how do we 775 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,160 where do we draw the line then between, you know, engaging 776 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,400 that, not engaging that or how do we prevent because some of 777 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,760 the I've seen people innocently, innocently do it and then later, 778 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,560 you know, apologize. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize. 779 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:31,280 How do we keep from that trap, you know, of, of endorsing or 780 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,080 getting on the bandwagon that we find out this has a broken 781 00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:35,680 wheels. I don't want to be honest, you 782 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,160 know? I think what we need to do that 783 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,040 people don't do enough of is what if it's an audio and you're 784 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,480 attaching it to a post or whatever? 785 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:48,720 Listen through the audio. People just listen to a little 786 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:53,400 snippet, throw it up there and then don't even know the rest of 787 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,800 it. They just, they just attach it. 788 00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,920 I see that a lot on like static content like photos and and 789 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,000 graphics where people would just attach on Instagram, you can 790 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,120 just attach an audio to it. And if it's a trending audio, 791 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,080 people may just say, hey, it's trending, why not? 792 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:16,400 But it may not be very, very beneficial to you and it may 793 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,960 you, you need to listen to it, you know, go if it's not going 794 00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,240 to show you the whole thing, go and listen to it and find it on, 795 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,000 on Google or something. Listen to it. 796 00:47:26,240 --> 00:47:29,160 If it's not depicting what you think it should be depicting 797 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,320 based off of, of the word God, or if it's not depicting 798 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:37,520 anything just from the, the, the source, then maybe don't use it. 799 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:42,760 The The thing is, is that when it comes to to trends and and 800 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,560 truth and compromising is it's not. 801 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,760 You need to engage the culture, not become a part of the 802 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,360 culture, right? And you're trying to engage it 803 00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,560 and, and, and get people to, to come around to maybe a community 804 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,920 of people or anything like that. But that's not necessarily means 805 00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,880 that you need to become a part of that thing. 806 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,080 And when it comes, when it comes to trends, at the end of the 807 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,960 day, the thing that I do with with anything is, is either 808 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,440 listen to it. And if I can't find anything 809 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:20,960 type, if you need an audio type in instrumental and find just a 810 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,920 simple instrumental that's not from any like huge known artist 811 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,000 or anything. It's just someone that sat down 812 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,680 and did something on the piano or something. 813 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,560 And and you throw the instrumental in the background 814 00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,200 and then your, your your hands are clean. 815 00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,240 You can you can post that with with clarity of mind and stating 816 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:45,080 I didn't do this and and I was I wasn't silly and and this is not 817 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,800 tied to anything that compromises. 818 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:55,160 Right, Yeah, because I know I mean good people have just been 819 00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,600 taken in and, you know, tripped up on something like that with 820 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,800 no, not, not meaning to whatsoever. 821 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:09,520 And I, I, another aspect today is that, and that's probably 822 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,480 like close to the one of our last questions, I'm not even get 823 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,040 to it. And I'm trying to keep track of 824 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:17,360 time to talk about deep fakes and things like that, that 825 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,400 we're, we're looking at here very soon of, you know, 826 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,720 individual talking, they're using their voice to say 827 00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:25,160 something that they would never say. 828 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,320 And we live in the world right now. 829 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:33,200 What can you even trust? What can you even trust? 830 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,240 I had a little thing pop up in my Facebook page here a few days 831 00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:40,280 ago. Read it sounded so convincing. 832 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,200 It was so good. Have been a great I could I 833 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,600 could preach, I could preach this aspect. 834 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,280 I shared it with her. I went to the bedroom. 835 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:50,000 My daughter was already asleep. Her was about the whole lullaby 836 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,360 of Rockabye baby in the tree top and is saying how the Native 837 00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,800 Americans used to have their babies in the trees and stuff 838 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,560 and that it's actually showing a progression of life that 839 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,160 whenever the bow breaks, the babies get too big, the baby 840 00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,520 will fall down goes baby cradle and all is like a transitionary 841 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:10,400 period of life from from infantile to and so the and I'm 842 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,600 like, yeah, that's good stuff. And so then I did further 843 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,440 research on it. It's all it's all just, it's 844 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,320 just stupid. It's all hoax. 845 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,160 It's made-up. And so there's so many things 846 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,080 like that, even a news outlets, things like that. 847 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,320 What's real, what's not real? This is the world that we're 848 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,040 living in, right? Because we're we're saddling up 849 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,440 a pseudo truth and we're riding it. 850 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,240 And how many times have we shared it, whether digitally or 851 00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:40,200 in person before we find out that was malarkey, that was 852 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:41,160 right. So I mean. 853 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:45,520 Check your sources. People do not do that enough. 854 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:46,840 It is. It is. 855 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,960 It is. On the side note, I've heard 856 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:54,280 people preach stuff and use stories that were totally bogus. 857 00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:57,760 It preach really good. Though it preach good, 858 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,240 everybody's raw, raw, raw. But it wasn't, it wasn't 859 00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:02,600 truthful. Yeah, Was it truthful? 860 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:08,600 Check your sources. I say that and this is actually 861 00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,720 because again, AI is a great thing and a pitfall at the same 862 00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:15,080 time. But if you really need to, 863 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,000 there's there's a research feature on there. 864 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,640 You can throw it in there and do the deep research and say, is 865 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,080 this real? Cite sources, Tell me about it 866 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,280 and it'll tell you whether or not it's, it's, it's real or 867 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:27,920 fake. I mean, it'll, it'll tell you, 868 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:29,800 yeah. Check your sources. 869 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,000 But they go into another one. I know we're already red here, 870 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,920 but is everybody doing OK? Yeah, OK. 871 00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,760 About 60% of teens and young adults report that social media 872 00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:44,680 causes them to feel anxious, left out or insecure. 873 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,600 Right. Because we we're transitioned 874 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:52,520 here from an organic, personal social world to a digital 1. 875 00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,760 And yet what I'm finding out is some of the very things that 876 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,120 exist and some of the same problems that exist in the 877 00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,560 digital world is what they experience also in their social 878 00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,800 world. And there's no bounce. 879 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,680 So what digital habits or patterns do we see as 880 00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,920 spiritually or emotionally unhealthy in the way many 881 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:20,400 believers engage online? Because if there's young adults 882 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:24,160 and teens feeling anxious, left out all this in a social media 883 00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:25,600 world, then then what? What? 884 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,280 What can we do? I say this. 885 00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:33,280 Do we have control? Yeah, I say this first to to 886 00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:37,160 start out with with teens and young adults that that idea is 887 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,720 many of those have probably already been addicted to social 888 00:52:39,720 --> 00:52:48,440 media for many years. Parents, I say this lovingly but 889 00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:52,040 I suggest based off of understanding marketing and the 890 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,920 psychology of it and understanding teens from a youth 891 00:52:55,920 --> 00:53:01,320 pastors perspective. I do not believe that your 892 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:08,480 students should have social media below 13 at the very 893 00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,560 earliest Habitat 13 and I know the teens in here are like Oh 894 00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,760 no. But if even if you give it to 895 00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:23,240 them, I think it needs to be highly monitored and it needs to 896 00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:28,600 be restricted to the NTH degree to, for, for one, to keep from 897 00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,640 addiction of, of social media, but also just to protect them. 898 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:39,880 There is a culture today of people giving their kids phones 899 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:45,120 and at a very young age and, and social media and in, in general 900 00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:48,760 and, and they're, they're exposed to things, whether it's 901 00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,000 just cyber bullying, pornography, anything like that. 902 00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,360 And, and they are exposed to it and they don't understand the 903 00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,640 device enough and that the child, they are very, very 904 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,680 smart. They are smart guys. 905 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,920 And I want you to understand how smart they are. 906 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,240 They will get around things if you don't put things in place. 907 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,200 You, you can, I can, I told my wife I was talking about it. 908 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,960 And I know this is a detour, but I told my wife about it and I 909 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:19,000 said, you know, I can literally add a phone to our account and I 910 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,920 can make it to where all it can do on an iPhone, right? 911 00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,480 All it can do is call and text, right? 912 00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,480 All it can do, I can, I can still access location because 913 00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:29,920 this is what I plan on doing with our kids. 914 00:54:30,240 --> 00:54:32,680 I can still access location, everything like that. 915 00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,440 They can't access the Internet, They can't access social media. 916 00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:36,960 All they can do is call or text me. 917 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:41,600 That's it. And so to, to, to take that, 918 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,960 that side of it, which is, is a positive side of it, but then 919 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,040 the inverse of it is unrestricted. 920 00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,920 It, it's, it, of course they are going to feel, they're going to 921 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:56,680 have anxiety, maybe depression, maybe, maybe have insecurities 922 00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,080 because who who knows what they've been exposed to or, or 923 00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,440 people they have been talking to. 924 00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:05,920 And so I say that and I highly suggest parents, please, please 925 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:10,040 do yourself the favor of of doing research, do do all of the 926 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:15,240 due diligence before you give your child a phone and and 927 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:18,200 again, social media. I highly recommend 13 and up, 928 00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:23,200 but but with with the pitfalls of of habits and patterns. 929 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:27,840 I think habits and patterns is the fact that we, we all do it 930 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,840 to some extent. Probably some of us are better 931 00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:36,440 at keeping keeping our mind in in order, but many of it is a it 932 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,960 is a measuring stick. Social media is and we measure 933 00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:44,080 it up against people's again, we're talking about preference 934 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,800 and, and, and their portrayal of themselves. 935 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,960 We are, we are measuring against other people's portrayals, 936 00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,320 personal portrayals that they want you to see. 937 00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,680 Highlight reel. The highlight stuff, right? 938 00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,280 And so it becomes a comparison game. 939 00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:01,560 Students already have that issue. 940 00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:04,360 They already deal with the comparison game. 941 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,120 It starts, it starts quite early. 942 00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:13,120 And so to to have that and then it compound on itself after the 943 00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:18,120 fact or it it start at school and then it continues on social 944 00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,120 media, right? When they go home. 945 00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:21,840 When they go home. When they go home, they're not 946 00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:23,680 away from, they can't get away. They still have access to it. 947 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:27,280 They still have access to it. And so it's, it's one of those 948 00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,600 things where behind the scenes, they may say they're fine, 949 00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,520 everything like that, but they are, they're anxious, they're 950 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,880 left out, they're insecure, they're whatever they're 951 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,440 insecure about, insecure about their body, they're insecure 952 00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,080 about, you know, how their knowledge, how much they know 953 00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,520 what family they come from, anything like that. 954 00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:46,560 And so when we, when we do that, and it doesn't, it doesn't just 955 00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,440 confine the students, but that was, that was very prevalent 956 00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,640 right there. But it is important that it, 957 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,680 social media is a measuring stick. 958 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,520 And we have to take a moment and really remember what reality is, 959 00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:01,680 right? We live in that, we're living it 960 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,680 when we're scrolling. We're living in that other 961 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:05,520 world. We're living in that virtual 962 00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,880 world and we have to remember what is reality? 963 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:13,160 Do they do they have XY and Z? Are they just saying that they 964 00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,760 have it or they just trying to portray something nice because 965 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,800 that's what they want me to see, right? 966 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:22,320 You don't post, you don't post all of the random photos you 967 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:25,040 take on on Facebook and Instagram. 968 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,760 You don't. I don't just go to my phone and 969 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,800 find all of the random screenshots that I and you don't 970 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,280 post all the random stuff. You post all the you know, 971 00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,280 people post all the pretty stuff or oh, this is just a photo. 972 00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:39,160 Dumb, but it's it's really not a photo dump they go through and 973 00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,240 they pick pick pick pick. It's still a photo. 974 00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:42,920 Pick. So once I'm even wondering, you 975 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,360 know, go ahead. Do we lean on it then? 976 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,480 Has it become a personal therapist? 977 00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,360 Absolutely. So on bad days, do we go there 978 00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:53,200 to get our encouragement, right? Just find the things that's 979 00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,360 going to speak what we want to hear because we had a bad day, 980 00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,000 whether your day was justifiably bad or part of your own fault, 981 00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,240 because you just search to find what it will say to say right to 982 00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:06,920 me. You know, it's to a certain 983 00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,240 degree, it can become the yes men in our corner if we feel a 984 00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,680 certain way with everything that identifies with how we're 985 00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:13,880 feeling. Yeah, that's good. 986 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:20,480 Yeah, that's right. When when we get to the 987 00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,160 grassroots of it, really how we feeling may be totally 988 00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,760 unfounded. We may need someone to say, no, 989 00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,840 you got it wrong. But we're just searching for 990 00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:33,360 everything that feeds how we're feeling and that's where the 991 00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,880 shares the likes. The repost is how I'm feeling 992 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:39,760 and it's become therapeutic to us. 993 00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:45,880 But is it really helping you or digging A deeper hole for a 994 00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:49,040 direction? Inadvertently, what it causes is 995 00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,880 an identity crisis. Sure, it may not be as 996 00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,600 flamboyant as what we would think an identity crisis would 997 00:58:55,600 --> 00:59:00,000 be, but we, we in our brain, we have an identity crisis and we, 998 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,840 we turn to those things to give us our identity, whatever that 999 00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,520 may, whatever that may be. I think it becomes very 1000 00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,920 unhealthy. It we, we be kind of we kind of 1001 00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,840 become numb to reality and that is our reality. 1002 00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,120 And we don't sit with our own feelings, right? 1003 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:20,920 We use it for a distraction when much as we say it can become a 1004 00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,880 distraction sometimes that's it's vice for life to be a 1005 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,720 distraction. And so we never take time to set 1006 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:30,040 with our own feelings, with our own thoughts, be very 1007 00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:35,720 introspective and think for ourselves and meditate up even 1008 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,920 maybe upon what we know from scripture and how that plays 1009 00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,200 into the fibers of whatever it is we're going through in that 1010 00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:45,800 moment. So I think it's great. 1011 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,400 It's a tool. It's a tool to be using very 1012 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,240 serious. Is there a certain one that you 1013 00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,560 want to go to? We only got probably 5 minutes 1014 00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:57,160 here and we'll be doing this for an hour that there we still got 1015 00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,360 several questions, but you don't have time, all right? 1016 00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:04,720 You don't have time. I don't know. 1017 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,520 Is there one I? Mean the only thing I can think 1018 01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:09,920 of. Any closing words? 1019 01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,920 We can't finish the day without saying, hey, if you guys want to 1020 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,160 follow Alex Mason, what are your things on Twitter? 1021 01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,760 And I mean, it would be totally injustice not to do that. 1022 01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:25,200 Go on, like and subscribe. It's awesome. 1023 01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:33,520 I think, I think the closing things I would say is regarding 1024 01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,280 just kind of jumping down a little bit to that bottom is, is 1025 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:42,800 regarding AI is really in in the grand scheme of things and and 1026 01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:48,440 most of it is free use AI to confirm it that it's AI use. 1027 01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:52,840 AI again, so that with discretion use it, Yeah, because 1028 01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,080 the disclaimer at the bottom of all those, Oh yeah, is that 1029 01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,600 every fact, everything may not be correct, may not. 1030 01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,960 And I have caught it and I've shared it with these. 1031 01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,600 We've had stuff because I've talked about it in the use of 1032 01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,600 studying or things like that with men that I mentor from 1033 01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,360 Nebraska and stuff. And I pointed out things where 1034 01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,000 it got it wrong. I said, look at this, AI is 1035 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:16,560 wrong. It's biblically wrong. 1036 01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:20,160 Yep. So you, it won't just be 1037 01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,360 biblical stuff, it'll be just everyday stuff. 1038 01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,880 I mean, still, you know, call 911 for your emergency. 1039 01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:30,720 Yes, understand. No, you're fine. 1040 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:36,680 Understand. One thing about AI is that AI is 1041 01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,880 a conglomerate of everything that has been input to it. 1042 01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:41,880 It's a learning. Model It is a learning model. 1043 01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,680 It did not already have all of this information. 1044 01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:48,120 It is learning. It is constantly learning, it is 1045 01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:52,120 constantly growing. And so when you understand that, 1046 01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,040 correct it, correct it when it's wrong. 1047 01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,680 But when, when you were looking at something and you think I'd 1048 01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,320 seen one, I don't remember what it was. 1049 01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:02,880 It was during the hurricane victims and everything. 1050 01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,200 And there was a, there was a photo that was posted to my eyes 1051 01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,560 personally to, to my eyes personally. 1052 01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:09,960 It was a little girl holding the dog to my eyes. 1053 01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:11,920 Personally, I looked at it and I was like, well, that's AI. 1054 01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:13,480 But then there were people sharing it. 1055 01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:15,880 And there's people in the comments like, oh, this poor, 1056 01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:19,560 this poor girl. And I'm like, she's this poor 1057 01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,200 girl. She's not even real. 1058 01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:26,360 She's not even breathing because she's not real. 1059 01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:31,440 And so understanding when, when you start to get exposed to it 1060 01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,400 and, and more exposure you get to it, the more you'll be able 1061 01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:39,880 to kind of catch it, you know, do some research on it, do some 1062 01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:41,880 research on it. Look up those type of things. 1063 01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,200 Look up what, how does, how does it write? 1064 01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,400 How does it, how does it look when it comes to imagery? 1065 01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,160 Because, because at the moment it's still not quite there 1066 01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:53,600 there. I I say that to say get, get as 1067 01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:57,800 quickly as you can later. There is a Google, there is a 1068 01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:04,160 Google video AI form right now it is Google VO3 that it can it 1069 01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:08,120 can create cinematic video with people moving. 1070 01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:11,680 There's no random weird parts of their bodies random anymore. 1071 01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,680 Forearms, yeah, we're not talking anything like that. 1072 01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:19,560 Nothing like that anymore. That's weird. 1073 01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:24,280 And they can now speak, right? And so now you can tell it what 1074 01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:26,840 to say. It can talk and it can, you can 1075 01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,920 act it out like it was a movie and that it will, it will do it. 1076 01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,600 And you could there will be movies that will be completely 1077 01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:37,320 audio or I, I generated, I dare say within the next couple years 1078 01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,440 because it is, it is becoming so quick at that. 1079 01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:44,680 And, and the, the viewing of it, I can still tell it's AI, but it 1080 01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:46,040 is getting more and more difficult. 1081 01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:50,200 And the, the more you can inform yourself, be informed, the more 1082 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,800 you, you can inform yourself, the less likely you are to be 1083 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,120 tripped up by all those different things. 1084 01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,960 And so that's what I say is, is that instead of well, I don't 1085 01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,560 because, because you don't want to get, you don't want to, you 1086 01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:04,160 know, get hoodwinked, right? No one wants to get hoodwinked. 1087 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,800 The best way to do that is to become informed, right? 1088 01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,200 You don't have to go deep in the research or anything like that, 1089 01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:14,640 but just get some exposure, get some understanding of it because 1090 01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:18,760 that's what's going to keep you from being tripped out by that. 1091 01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,440 Yeah, it'll be the new scam coming out, folks. 1092 01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,000 It'll be the new scam. AI telemarketers. 1093 01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:25,840 That's right, it'll be the new scam. 1094 01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,280 Amen. I hope this was enlightening, 1095 01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,960 enjoyable here this evening. Second time that we've done 1096 01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:33,400 something like this. I do want to stand though and I 1097 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:39,000 want us to end it in prayer tonight for us because living in 1098 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,840 a world like we do, I mean, like I said, if you come into a 1099 01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:45,760 place, then what is truth? What is truth, What is real? 1100 01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,720 That could just bleed on over into every aspect of life, then 1101 01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:51,080 that we just question everything. 1102 01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:53,080 Well, what can I even trust that? 1103 01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:56,440 Can I even trust that church? You know, it can just really 1104 01:04:56,520 --> 01:05:01,200 start encompassing a whole lot. But I think we got the Bible 1105 01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,520 spoke even concerned the disciples when the Lord sent 1106 01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:05,440 them out. You know that they would be as 1107 01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,640 sly as serpents and as harmless as doves. 1108 01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:12,440 And that is still yet good, good, good advice for us today 1109 01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:15,080 there. There must be a slyness or an 1110 01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,760 awareness to the fact and also then as harmless still that love 1111 01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,880 and that support and stuff that we have as we interact in these 1112 01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:26,560 two worlds of both digital and real world. 1113 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:28,400 All right. And so we want to use it for the 1114 01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,600 best of the ability in our own lives and for the life of the 1115 01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:35,160 church to extend the reach, all right, to be wholesome with it 1116 01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,360 and not to be, you know, argumentative and all of these 1117 01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,000 things that it can be. We want to use the tool in the 1118 01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,440 appropriate manner, just as any other tool that we would put 1119 01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,120 into our hands concerning the church. 1120 01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,800 So I'm going to pray tonight. Will you help me pray and let 1121 01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,440 the prayer just be personal? God help me to be aware. 1122 01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:54,680 Let me be aware of its pitfalls, but help me then to utilize it 1123 01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:57,440 in a praiseworthy way for your Kingdom. 1124 01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,480 Father, I come to you tonight. I pray, O Lord Jesus, this is 1125 01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,800 the generation that we are in God. 1126 01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:04,360 We're all living during this time. 1127 01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,240 Lord, you're not surprised by this. 1128 01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,200 I pray, O Lord, that you would give us wisdom and knowledge and 1129 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,920 understanding. Know how to navigate Lord, these 1130 01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,080 waters. Lord Jesus of social media, in 1131 01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:17,000 the day that we live. Help us, O Lord God, to use 1132 01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:21,840 them, Lord, in a Lord uplifting, Lord edifying Lord Jesus type of 1133 01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,480 way. Not to Lord, tear down not to 1134 01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,440 Lord Jesus, sharpen the edge of the sword, Pierce anybody 1135 01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:32,160 through help us, oh God today, God, to be mindful God of how it 1136 01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,760 can distract us, but also mindful Lord, how we can use it 1137 01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:40,120 God to evangelize Lord, another portion, Lord of our world, I 1138 01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:43,960 pray, O God, help us to keep and strike a healthy balance. 1139 01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:48,160 Lord, in all of this, I pray Jesus God as a church, as 1140 01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:52,120 individuals, as Christians, I pray, O Lord today, God, that 1141 01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:55,960 you would be Lord the, the, the very character of who you are is 1142 01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:59,000 what we would try to perpetuate Lord, what we would try to 1143 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:02,120 mirror Lord to others, not some facade, not something that is 1144 01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:05,960 fake, not something Lord God, that is not real, but Lord, just 1145 01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,960 something that's genuine. I pray Father, in our day and 1146 01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:12,000 age, God so that we could become all things to all men. 1147 01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,320 I have a launching pad, a connecting point, Lord Jesus, 1148 01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,920 that we might have a word or a voice God in their life. 1149 01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:22,360 I pray God bless your people, Lord Jesus this week, strengthen 1150 01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:25,000 them and empower them. Help them, Lord Jesus, to be 1151 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,240 what they need to be, Lord within the dynamics of these two 1152 01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:31,760 worlds, in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray 1153 01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,160 Hallelujah and Amen, the church say Amen, Amen. 1154 01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:38,480 This coming Sunday, Father's Day, AM service only, no PM 1155 01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:41,080 service, all right, AM service only. 1156 01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:44,520 And then again next Sunday or next Wednesday rather, you'll be 1157 01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:49,040 with brother Jerry Alan Mason. Doctor Jerry Alan Mason will be 1158 01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,480 here on Wednesday speaking to you all folks. 1159 01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:53,960 All right, have a have a have a great week. 1160 01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:58,160 Amen. And don't wear out that thumb 1161 01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,320 going to the Eiffel Tower or the statue.