The Downside and Dangers of the Digital Age
The Downside and Dangers of the Digital Age
I. (PRO 8:12) I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
A. invention: The thing invented. Something devised; a method of action, etc., contrived
by the mind; a device, contrivance, design, plan, scheme.
B. Mind that Wisdom does not restrict itself to developing witty inventions.
1. This passage speaks of finding out knowledge of witty inventions.
2. This is as much an appeal to discernment as it is to engineering.
3. We do we...
VI. Man was
A. Man was made in God's image (GEN 1:26) and He is God in Three Persons. 1JO 5:7.
B. The church is built of mutually supporting members. 1CO 12:21.
C. This new digital world with its social networking, emails, and texts boasts itself a utopia
for human connection.
1. We can now connect with long-lost relatives, friends, co-workers, and classmates
from around the country or world.
2. People commonly have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook or LinkedIn.
3. But has all this digital connectio...
VIII. The digital revolution has provided an easy platform to say, share, and gossip too much online.
A. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are venues where one can from the
“secure island” of his computer blab things he should not and would not normally have
the opportunity to in real life.
B. The definition of twitter is telling.
1. twitter: Of a bird: To utter a succession of light tremulous notes; to chirp continuously with a tremulous effect. b. transf. Of a person: To sing after th...
XII. Having recently addressed the pornography problem in general and the clear dangers that the internet represents in that regard, including sexting, I choose here to limit my comments to the matter of cyber-sex and cyber-affairs.
A. As a pastor, I have already seen the destruction of one marriage as a result of online
behavior, and this was over ten years ago before the onset of today's mobile devices.
B. “A recent study shows as many as one in five divorces now involve Facebook affairs.”
(Dr. Archib...
L. Video games are highly addictive and some have serious consequences.
1. Dr. Hart in The Digital Invasion had this to say about video game playing and
addiction: “As we write this book, it is estimated that 95 to 97 percent of our youth are playing video games of one sort or another.”
(Dr. Archibald D. Hart, The Digital Invasion, p. 124)
2. “Video game addiction, also known as video game overuse is the extreme use of video games to the extent that it interferes with daily life. Gaming addiction is a f...