The Internet is a communication system like the world has never seen, and it is a tool both for good and for evil. The moral dangers are great and must not be discounted, and the danger is not only for youth; it is for all ages. Recently the “cheating” web site Ashley Madison was hacked and 32 million names were exposed. One was Josh Duggar, the oldest of the 19 children of the Duggar family whose television program on The Learning Channel made them famous representatives of the Christian faith. After R.C. Sproul, Jr., son of the famous Reformed theologian and author, admitted that he visited the site, he was placed under a one-year suspension from the ministry. He is a father and grandfather. Southern Baptist leader Ed Stetzer said as many as 400 pastors and church workers could resign because of the exposure (“400 Church Leaders,” Relevant, Aug. 27, 2015). The elderly father of a pastor friend recently committed adultery with a younger member of the pastor’s church. The two met when the father visited his son’s church and developed the relationship and planned their alliance on Facebook. The father was caught when the son borrowed his cell phone and found the illicit communication. In our new course The Mobile Phone and the Christian Home and Church, we give many suggestions for how to protect ourselves and our children in the smartphone age. This book will be published in a couple of weeks, the Lord willing, and it will also be a part of theYouth Discipleship Library we are preparing to publish. (Friday Church News Notes, September 4, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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