Stupid Smart Phones
March 5, 2016
Romans 12:9-10 “Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other.”
At Salisbury Cathedral outside London, a giant statue called The Kiss has been moved because it posed a “texting danger.” The massive statue depicts two hands holding on to one another, and it was built across a walking path so people could walk through the hands. But instead, people were so intent on looking at their smart phones that they kept hitting their heads on the statue, so it had to be moved off the path. What an ironic picture of our modern condition. Technology is supposed to bring us closer together, and sometimes it does. But too often we allow meaningless distractions to cause us to miss out on the opportunity to just reach out and hold the hand of someone we love. How different it is today than when people used to sit around a dinner table where they would actually be talking and sharing with each other. But now I watch people sitting around dinner tables when we go out to eat, and every member of the family have their faces buried in their smart phone. I hope you will take a moment to look around, and make sure that you are fully present with the people in your life. Don’t hit your head on The Kiss. The Bible is right when it says, “Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other.” I think that simply means when you are together with someone you love, truly be with him or her and not on your smart phone because that is not very smart.
– Tim Thompson, Senior Pastor
At Salisbury Cathedral outside London, a giant statue called The Kiss has been moved because it posed a “texting danger.” The massive statue depicts two hands holding on to one another, and it was built across a walking path so people could walk through the hands. But instead, people were so intent on looking at their smart phones that they kept hitting their heads on the statue, so it had to be moved off the path. What an ironic picture of our modern condition. Technology is supposed to bring us closer together, and sometimes it does. But too often we allow meaningless distractions to cause us to miss out on the opportunity to just reach out and hold the hand of someone we love. How different it is today than when people used to sit around a dinner table where they would actually be talking and sharing with each other. But now I watch people sitting around dinner tables when we go out to eat, and every member of the family have their faces buried in their smart phone. I hope you will take a moment to look around, and make sure that you are fully present with the people in your life. Don’t hit your head on The Kiss. The Bible is right when it says, “Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other.” I think that simply means when you are together with someone you love, truly be with him or her and not on your smart phone because that is not very smart.
– Tim Thompson, Senior Pastor