Blog Of Rick Pepper

Mike Sessler mentioned this podcast in a recent post of his, here’s the iTunes podcast URL for this episode from Mars Hill Church entitled “Spirituality of the Cellphone”, it’s a must. Below are my initial comments on Mike’s blog’

“Right on Mike. In a lot of ways I find technology further defining and making ever-so-blatant the distance (or on the better days the nearness) there is to other people. We have so many more options for communicating, and yet we don’t make use of them. It can make more plain to us those we are near to, and those we actually aren’t, even though we wouldn’t admit that. It makes the distance grow greater in a sense. I have asked myself this a time or two; does my gospel and my lifestyle work when “unplugged.” With digital photography now you could [almost] take 100 photos in your sleep, but when participating in family or church events I feel challenged to balance the “one for posterity” and the here-and-now when it’s much easier to just be the face behind the lens. Modern day scribes is what we could be called, recording sermons and capturing photos and video, it can give God material to work with in the future to show us where He’s taken us and where we’ve come from. Some of us maybe need to take it more seriously – the fact that we’re capturing the “yesterday’s” of tomorrow, some of us maybe need to not take it so seriously.”