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How digital technology enhances christian ministries

The truth be told, digital technology has made us live longer, healthier, cleaner, and more comfortable lives than did our ancestors. Digital technology has its values in realizing the good by fulfilling the moral obligations that Jesus taught. This plays an important role in helping people to know more about God. But the same technologies are used to mislead and draw people away from Him. On balance, it is very difficult to judge the net value of technology -- technology is both good and bad. It has a more subtle negative effect: to distract us from the highest good, God and His kingdom. It does this by making us busy, then by drawing our attention to activities related to the lower good. Technology creates many opportunities for us to realize the good things, like being efficiency, productivity, and speedy. It creates many activities to occupy our attention. Which tend to draw our attention away from the highest good towards activities directed to things of lesser value. Perhaps the ...