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Net-Flix, iPods, and The Roaring Lion

Fighting Against Isolationism

As I was scanning through the information for Net-Flix this weekend I was amazed at how easy it sounds. I simply sign up for the service and the movies come right to my door. I never have to leave home. Then I realized what never leaving home means. It simply means that I lose another area of accountability in my life.

As it is now, whenever I want to rent a movie, my wife and I go into the blockbuster store together and pick out our selection. Even though we have made a personal commitment never to watch a R-rated movie, I still find myself reading the back of the cases to see what the movies are about and of course to check the rating. What I have in the process is a means of accountability. I know that everyone in the store is potentially watching me and my conscience is telling me to stay above reproach in all that I look at.

When movies come to your door you loose this area of accountability. You can order anything you want and no one sees your choices. Simply, nobody knows! The same with the Internet. It gets piped into our homes and we watch it in seclusion from the rest of the world. Yet another area where we have lost accountability.

As if this were not enough I have one more woe to add to my list. This morning as I was leaving for work I saw two teenage girls waiting for the school bus. Both of them were standing by the road, silent, with ear phones in their ears, neither talking to the other. In public, yet in complete isolation from the world.

All of these things have one thing in common. They remove us from society – therefore, they eliminate all forms of interaction and accountability. The reason? The devil is roaming around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Who will he choose? He will choose the weakest of the herd, those who have wandered off on their own, and isolated themselves from the rest. And there he will devour them.

We must fight the good fight of keeping our families in tact and we do this through relationships and these are maintained through conversation and dialogue. Keep up the battle for our children, I am afraid we are loosing it!

Comments

Anonymous said…
good point Holy Papa! you are always right except about the internet being "piped" into the homes. last time i checked, it took 43 min to download Lil Brudder onto your computer.you might want to get your "internet pipes" checked out cuz they might be clogged. sorry, just giving ya a hard time! Much luv bro!
4:54 PM
Anonymous said…
Good point. Our sense of community (and therefore) accountability) is definitly fading. If we would all turn off the noise for a while maybe there would be some real communication going on in our homes.
12:54 PM
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