As this aging writer looks at the digital age, I'm seeing far more negatives than positives. For example, Human attention span has decreased over the past eighteen years, thus decreasing valuable time for Bible study. Here are some other things we've lost in the digital age.Our fast-paced digital age has also brought about the loss of this precious commodity (also see here and here), resulting in a lost sense of calmness. Has anyone in our society ever heard of the practice of stillness and undisturbed stillness without noise of any kind? We are also seeing increasing speed and convenience, but at what cost?
Do we not need to slow down the pace and learn that "busyness" is not the key to happiness? On the other side of the coin, "service is the bottom line to happiness and fulfillment."
Plus, there's a great need for "real" conversation in our society. In fact, as a result of the texting phenomenon, people are starving for face-to-face conversation that families once experienced around the dinner table.
The only positive aspect this writer sees in the digital age, is that God's word can now be spread to a wider viewing audience around the world far faster than ever before. For example, this Gospel Snippets blog is teaching the Bible twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to folks in ten countries around the world. Just in the United States alone, there have been almost one million page views of the 3,451 articles contained in this blog since this beginning article in 2014 (updated in 2019).
There are numerous other Christian writers spreading God's Word around the blogging world as I'm writing this article, i.e., here, here, here, and here). Beloved, there won't be any valid excuses on Judgment Day for not knowing and understanding God's Word.
---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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