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Two pastors have offered practical advice for combating smartphone addiction â an issue they said is permeating the Church at an unprecedented rate.Â
Smartphone addiction is one of the âmajor pastoral issuesâ of today, Joe Rigney, an author, seminary professor, and pastor at Cities Church, said in a video posted on the Gospel Coalition website, yet it only emerged in recent years.Â
âI think anytime when weâre preaching at our church and we make an application to technology and smartphones . you can feel it palpably from our people that thereâs a hunger for, âYes, we feel like thereâs something wrong here, and we just donât know exactly what to do.â Because we feel like theyâre so âessentialâ to living. Theyâre so useful in so many ways, yet it feels like thereâs something thatâs off,â he said.Â
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One day, as Jesus was teaching, a man in the crowd shouted out, âTeacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with meâ (Luke 12:13). Now, if we had been in that crowd, after cringing over such an awkward issue raised in public, what would we have assumed most likely prompted this manâs request? Probably a family injustice.
But what did Jesus hear? Covetousness. And we might have cringed over Jesusâs response more than the manâs request. Surprisingly, Jesus used the manâs plea for justice not to rebuke unjust oppressors, but to warn not only the man but all his hearers (present and future) of the greater danger earthly wealth poses to every soul that craves it: âTake care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for oneâs life does not consist in the abundance of his possessionsâ (Luke 12:15).