Technology? Waste of Time.

This is a guest post from one of my good friends, Richard Morris. His blog, Jesus Thirst, hasn’t been updated in months. For that reason, he decided to write a post here.

For the past several weeks my morning routine—after crawling out of bed and draining liquid matter that had amassed overnight—was to jump onto my laptop, read a few blogs of well-known pastors (while simultaneously checking their Twitter updates), seeing what new sermons were available that day, and reading the Bible. Hi, my name is Richard, and I am a church addict.

Usually these pastors share great words of insight regarding leadership and the Christian faith. At times they might even provide steps for dealing with various issues which may arise in one’s life and ministry. Regardless, even though I was able to acquire a great wealth of information, my life remained pretty much the same.

For one of my classes I’m reading through the letter and a commentary about First Corinthians—it’s in the Bible. It was written by a guy named Paul and he, to most Christians, is a superhero: traveling to foreign lands, starting churches in the middle of thriving cities, and debating with some of the most brilliant minds of his day. 

The church in the ancient city of Corinth had more problems than I care to go into. Paul, dealing with these problems from several miles away, comes up with what he thinks to be the best solution: 

I urge you to imitate me.

And so Paul sends one of his most trusted co-workers, Timothy. Paul is confident that the physical presence of Timothy will remind the Corinthians of Paul and will simultaneously help them to navigate their predicaments.

Christianity is something that cannot be learned from a distance, through screens and iPods alone. Sometimes the best way to learn something in life is to have someone close in your life, as in a physically present human being, who models it. What do you think?

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