For What it’s Worth…

I love Facebook.
I love Twitter.
I love Facebook and Twitter on my iPhone no matter where I am in the world (almost)!

But I’m a little worried.  To tell you the truth, I’m a lot worried.  I’m worried about what’s going to happen to a whole generation of young people when Facebook catches up with them.  If you’re under 20, you’re a member of the iGeneration, who along with us GenXers, could also be called the Facebook Generation.

If you use Facebook, I wonder how much thought you’ve given to what impact the information you post on your profile and on other people’s walls will have on you later in life.  Remember last week when Facebook asked you “What’s on your mind?” and you wrote that funny comment (or so it seemed at the time)?  Just because that comment has slipped off the bottom of your wall, doesn’t mean that it’s gone forever.  In fact, it almost certainly hasn’t. Think also of your comments on other people’s walls or photos; even if you close your Facebook account and formally request Facebook to delete your page, these comments will remain, since they are information that you have “shared with third parties.”

There are some books that just keep popping up around the place.  Soul-Winning Made Easy by C S Lovett, published in 1959, is one of them.  Every few months I see another reference to it, someone selling it (eBay has multiple copies currently listed), or someone describing it in words like these “This book represents everything that  was wrong with much of the evangelism training of years gone by”!

Tim Challies, over at Challies Dot Com, has posted some amusing illustrations, two of which are linked at right.

Here’s a section from page 78.

You have just said to your prospect . . . “Jesus is waiting to come into your heart. Will you open the door? Will you let Him come in?” He makes no reply. Great forces are at work inside him. His soul is a battlefield. The Holy Spirit and Satan want his decision. You wish you could jump into his heart and help him, but you can’t. So you do the one thing you can do . . . press him to make a decision . . . one way or the other.