The Digital Desires Inbox, Volume 1: Taken by the Tetris Blocks, Conquered by Clippy, Invaded by the iWatch

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A drift away from what we have heard with our ears — in the form of a nautical metaphor. It tells us the importance of holding a ship’s course toward a fixed point, to avoid being pulled off course and drifting away. Biz: You’ve both been confronted with people being rude about the fact that you’re making music about things they don’t think a woman should make music about. Now, all of this seems like a bunch of harmless fun, until we realize that every spectacle — get this — every spectacle wants something from us. Every spectacle makes demands on us. So, what do our spectacles want from us? This, I think, is a huge reality that a lot of us fail to see. We dare not let the greatness of Jesus Christ get lost on our affections. This is one of the greatest threats to Christians in the digital age. It’s as easy as giving our affections over to this age of the visible spectacle — to this attention economy — and our delight in Christ will deteriorate. We will drift. And that drift, away from Christ, for digital thrills, is the worst trade in the universe — to turn away from God’s great Spectacle in favor of the next little buzz of media offered by the world.

These questions are meant to put our media diet and our spiritual affections in the same conversation, because that’s where they belong: in the same conversation. Our attentional drift will show up in these areas. The effects of our media diet will show up in these honest answers. 4. Church leaders, keep leading ears into unseen glories. Isabella: Taking someone’s image, copying someone, or selling their images, is inescapable in this culture. There are [right] ways to do it and there are immoral ways to do it. Even right now, there are big celebrities going on OnlyFans… Sasha: I don’t know the whole story behind that. But from what I’ve read, she went on there saying she was going to get naked and didn’t get naked.brunettes women models digital desire magazine elizabeth marxs 3000x2000 People Models Female HD Art

Only Christ can be this most brilliant Spectacle for us. And when our ears, our attention, neglect Christ, we drift away from him. That’s the point of Hebrews 2:1–3. To drift is the easiest thing in the world. And this drift is felt most clearly when we find ourselves constantly seeking after a new thrill in our media, meanwhile losing interest in the person of Christ, watching our interest in the Bible decline as we coldly mouth the words to Christ-centered hymns, and yawn through Christ-centered sermons, and spiritually snooze through the Lord’s Table. So, as we “consume” spectacles, we don’t merely ingest them; we are constantly responding to them. Visual images awaken the motives inside of our hearts. Images tug the strings of our actions. Images want our celebration, our awe, our affection, our time, and our outrage. Images invoke our consensus, our approval, our buy-in, our resharing power, and of course our wallets. I have a few takeaways and thoughts on what this means for our own lives and for how we lead Sunday gatherings. But first let’s open God’s word together to Hebrews 2:1. The writer of Hebrews says this: Where our eyes go, so goes our heart. Where our heart is, so go our eyes. Attention and affection are linked. So, if you glut yourself on the spectacles of this world, your heart must drift away from Christ. We all must get honest with that reality inside of us. Lead your kids and lead your church from this starting point of personal honesty. No one is exempt. 2. Apply the concept of fasting to the buffet of digital media.Isabella: That’s a big problem in Honduras. It’s like you either die or you kill yourself if you’re queer.