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MembersFinding Faith and Purpose in a Digital World

Does it feel like the new technologies are robbing you of your ability to relate to your family, your faith communities, and your nation? It’s time to have a real talk.

We are living through one of the greatest revolutions in history changing the way we live, think and believe. Many of us are feeling alienated, frustrated and concerned about where society is going and what we have lost.

We suspect that the new digital technologies have something to do with the uncertainty, but it is not always clear just what the problem is.

 

It’s all about words

Communication is key to all we do, think and how we live, and the new technologies have radically transformed the way we relate to communicate to and even see one another.

Communicating with words is by far our most potent God-given ability and we need to be careful how we use it. The creator even had to limit our power with words when the peoples of earth spoke the same language enabling them to build a tower at Babel that “reached unto heaven.” Whatever that “tower” may mean, the powers latent in cooperation through communications with words had to be tempered – for when we communicate to cooperate, whether...

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9 responses to “Finding Faith and Purpose in a Digital World”

  1. Mark Watkins says:

    Shalom Daveed,

    Excellent piece, I have spent 42 years in Electronic Engineering, so, I know exactly where you are going with this, and you’re so right!

    Toda David 🙂

    • David Lazarus says:

      Thanks Mark for the encouragement. So great to hear from someone right in the midst of this field and so aware of what’s going on.

      May you be blessed in this New Year and find loving ways to communicate wherever you may be.

      Shalom

      • Mark Watkins says:

        Shalom David,

        Brachot Achi, Toda, and truly I go and share many places and I truly try and share in a loving way, however, I must speak Truth, expect Truth and search out the only Truth, The only Way, The only Life, Mashiach Yeshua…

        I will never tolerate attacks on Yisrael, no matter the venue, where I am, and stand up for Yisrael, The Jewish People..

        Blessings to Yisrael yom, to you and this ministry and work you do in Yeshua’ name 🙂

  2. Franciscus says:

    As a retired academic, I not only welcome your article, but readily confirm what you are saying.
    I would however add, that in the past, we had more time to assess the reliability and truth of information, we now make assumptions that are usually incorrect but still foolishly end up responding. Hopefully this is not one of them ?

    • David Lazarus says:

      Thanks Franciscus for taking the time to comment here. So good to hear that someone like yourself can confirm my thinking on this. Appreciated your humble conclusion 🙂 I too have learned to look at the world with some humor as the alternative can be overwhelming.

      Happy New Year and Shalom!

  3. Eitan Shishkoff says:

    Outstanding, timely article, David. Many thanks for delving into the essential dynamic of communication. Your message urges us to use the “new technology” to enhance our relationships rather than avoiding them.

    • David Lazarus says:

      Shalom Eitan and thanks for the encouraging words. Especially from someone like yourself being such a loving and gracious communicator.

      Warm embraces.
      David

  4. gvgathome says:

    Thank you David for your very timely article. The section on ‘Hold onto that which is good’. is excellent advice in this present day and age, where the ‘media’ seems to be trying to lead us astray from God and His Son and the truth of the Bible into an abyss of licentiousness. ‘As it was in the days of Noah (Luke 17:26 & 27) and Lot’ (Luke 17:28). This prophecy spoken by Jesus 2000 years ago of man’s disregard for God, is being fulfilled before our eyes.

    • David Lazarus says:

      Dear gvgathome, thanks for chiming in here. Yes, we are certainly living in dangerous times and glad that you alert to this.

      May you have a Blessed New Year as you hold on to that which is good.

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