Facebook & Our Witness For Christ

I have been thinking about what I am doing. I mean, I sit here and read all of these updates on Facebook, and just can't help but wonder where God is in the lives of my contacts. From what I have seen most of them have 'Christian' under their 'Religious Views', but for the most part I don't see a lot of people who say much about Jesus or the gospel.

This is troubling to me because I was recently watching a John Piper sermon where he was talking about how important it is to have a very high view of the gospel. So much so that it is radically thought consuming. It was very moving and powerful. He talked about how people don't take the gospel very seriously because they don't take their sin very seriously, and they don't take their sin very seriously because they don't really know much about God. This video will show you a little bit about what I mean:



I think that the reason that I find myself wanting to read the Bible; wanting to know God; know the gospel, and live there in that grace is because at almost every moment of my conscious day I am increasingly aware of the reality that I am way more bad than I am good. Those who have heard me mention it have told me that it is unhealthy for me to think about my badness and sin the way that I do. I mean there are times when I just want to lay down, not move, and just weep because I have said something that offended my wife because I wanted to do something and in that wanting I trample her emotions and it is just horrible. I mean, I am just such a horrible person.

I began to really think about this a month or two before I got saved (roughly 4 years ago). I always say that if you are going to be a perfectionist you will always end up a very frustrated person all the time. That is how I began to realize by badness. I decided that I would try and reform my behaviors, but the more I strove for righteousness and goodness the further it seemed I would get from it. I would have some king of very primitive idea of right and wrong, and from that begin to work toward that which I was perceiving to be good, however the more I tried the higher I realized the standard to be and thus the further I saw that I was from it until I was simply pointless to keep trying. Therefore, my perfectionism rendered my a very frustrated person.

It seems that most people don't take this as seriously as I do. They are content rather, to compare themselves to other people, most of which are just as bad if not worse then they are and conclude that they're not all that bad comparatively. I don't know why but that just doesn't work for me. Just take a second and think about it. Who do compare yourself to so that you can accurately assess your moral character? Listen to what Paul Washer has observed about his badness:



These are the things that have been in my mind. That everyday I do God infinite wrong, and because I do so badly against God it is rather superfluous to think about what I have done against other people. I just know that when I do other people wrong it is only because I am doing God wrong, and behaving badly toward Him.

I guess just all of this to say that I don't think that many people take God seriously enough to talk about Him on their Facebook pages and status updates because He is really not that valuable to them, and He is really not that valuable to them because they have convinced themselves that they are not really all that bad. I hope that I see myself as worse and worse so that I can see my need for Jesus Christ more and more, because the more I need Him the more wonderful His grace and provision for me becomes in my mind.