Comments on: Equipping the Saints: Stepping on the Brake http://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/08/equipping-the-saints-stepping-on-the-brake.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Tue, 22 May 2012 03:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chrishttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/08/equipping-the-saints-stepping-on-the-brake.html#comment-45616 Chris Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:32:27 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1279#comment-45616 Might I propose a different cause and effect? Perhaps the internet isn't the cause, it's the effect. Maybe the cause is that everyone's work hours continue to expand, so no one has time to meet face-to-face anymore, so they're forced into internet communication to keep up? For example, 3 years ago my friends and I all saw each other 4 or 5 times a week. Now that all of us are working full time, we never see each other. Why? One works 5 am - 1, another 9-5, another 1-10, another 4-midnight, etc. As one gets out of work, another is going to bed. As one finishes dinner, another leaves for work. So perhaps this is the effect of businesses expanding their hours, and thus their workers having to work weirder schedules? Just musing. Don't know if this is dead on or a total miss. Might I propose a different cause and effect? Perhaps the internet isn’t the cause, it’s the effect. Maybe the cause is that everyone’s work hours continue to expand, so no one has time to meet face-to-face anymore, so they’re forced into internet communication to keep up? For example, 3 years ago my friends and I all saw each other 4 or 5 times a week. Now that all of us are working full time, we never see each other. Why? One works 5 am – 1, another 9-5, another 1-10, another 4-midnight, etc. As one gets out of work, another is going to bed. As one finishes dinner, another leaves for work. So perhaps this is the effect of businesses expanding their hours, and thus their workers having to work weirder schedules?

Just musing. Don’t know if this is dead on or a total miss.

]]> By: slwhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/08/equipping-the-saints-stepping-on-the-brake.html#comment-45615 slw Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:18:08 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1279#comment-45615 Maybe a lesson from Noah or from Jesus commissioning disciples, or even the Waldensians in the late Middle Ages: going two by two can have a big effect on the history to follow? Maybe a lesson from Noah or from Jesus commissioning disciples, or even the Waldensians in the late Middle Ages: going two by two can have a big effect on the history to follow?

]]> By: DChttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2009/08/equipping-the-saints-stepping-on-the-brake.html#comment-45614 DC Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:29:34 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1279#comment-45614 When I found myself ignoring my own children who were sitting right in front of me, allowing the television to 'interact' with them, while 'conversing' with someone I hadn't seen or heard from in twenty years via Facebook I knew that something was out of control. Just to throw it out there: technology is neutral, right? It is neither good nor evil. It is the way we use it that is the real issue. Is that not true? We would not be having this excellent discussion if it were not for technology. I could have sent a hand written letter I suppose. When I found myself ignoring my own children who were sitting right in front of me, allowing the television to ‘interact’ with them, while ‘conversing’ with someone I hadn’t seen or heard from in twenty years via Facebook I knew that something was out of control.

Just to throw it out there: technology is neutral, right? It is neither good nor evil. It is the way we use it that is the real issue. Is that not true? We would not be having this excellent discussion if it were not for technology. I could have sent a hand written letter I suppose.

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