Jan 21, 2026
There have been several articles, posts, and blogs recently about our social media culture’s push back against our addiction to screens. Smart phones, computers, and YouTube increasingly are being seen as detrimental to relationships, physical fitness, and mental health. Our demand for instant stimulation and information is wearing thin.
What’s more this social media compulsion has bled over into church life. Our services in many ways have become easy answer, simple solution, and pop culture with soft rock music and “Ted Talk” motivational sermons. And we’re tiring of it. More and more people, especially those 20-35 years old are looking for lyrically substantial hymns, proven liturgy, and expositional preaching.
Many years ago the famous pastor and author A.W. Tozer (April 21,1897-May 12, 1967) speaking to his generation could at the same time have spoken to ours:
“This is a blasé generation. People have been over- stimulated to the place where their nerves are jaded and their tastes corrupted. Natural things have been rejected to make room for things artificial. The sacred has been secularized, the holy vulgarized, and worship converted into a form of entertainment.”
We need to remember that Christianity has never appealed to culture. Rather it has resisted it. Indeed it is counter-cultural, calling for cross bearing and the cost of discipleship. Yet, as one puts trust in Jesus one finds, as he promised, that “his yoke is easy, his burden light”. An irony for sure, but the point of faith is obedience to his word and the knowledge that we are not saved by works but “for” works. Indeed, we’ll be known “by our fruit”.
