I suppose that should be obvious. I mean, if you spend any amount of time on social media and you read the posts made by those who call themselves Christians, you might be surprised at how at least some of those comments compare unfavorably to Biblical principles.

I couldn’t sleep, so I got up early to do my daily (most days) Bible readings. This morning, that included Romans 12 and 13. Those chapters have a lot to say about how we are to behave as believers.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. –Romans 12:2 (NASB)

There is no more seductive or alluring platform that conforms us to this world than social media. Any number of atheists (or bots or paid influencers) go online to degrade and insult Christianity and God and it’s like an instant slap in the face. The temptation to fire back at them is enormous and many people do. The irony is that the instant you engage them, the algorithms working on the social media platform put more of the same kind of behavior onto your timeline, so it feels like being ganged up on.

Oh, what about this?

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