Ladies and Gentlemen: this book is the kind of book my soul longs for!
Our society is consumed with Social Media and digital communication. How can a follower of Jesus pursue the Kingdom of God when we aren't communicating face-to-face?
Douglas Bursch provides an excellent overview of what is going on and why our social media feeds are filled with arguing and fighting and angry bursts of text. And then he outlines the path towards peace.
It's all about dehumanizing one another. The screen in front of us provides us an out in that we don't have to relate to one another the way we used to. There are so many feeds and statements being presented to us that the work it used to take to build and nurture relationships is gone.
Replaced in the notion that unless the person is feeding my own preference, I can end the relationship because it's only digital.
If you are a follower of Jesus and use Social Media or if you are just tired of reading all the negativity and arguing online, you need to read this book and put it into practice.
We need to be peacemakers and, surprisingly, Bursch directs the reader to stop blocking/unfollowing/ghosting people we disagree with in the pursuit of peacemaking.
It will be difficult but this is the journey Jesus has taken and calls us to take with Him.
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