7 BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. EX 20:3

• You shall not bow down and serve them.

• For the Lord your God is a jealous God.

• Does God become jealous of the large amount of time that we do not spend on Him?

YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY EX.20:14• “Twenty percent of divorces involve Facebook

and 80 percent of divorce lawyers have reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence, according to a survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.”

• ABC News. ABC News Network. Web. 30 Oct. 2010

YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR’S… EX.20:17• Social media allows us to put our possessions

out on display for our neighbor to see

• “Look at my ox, look how great my ox is, don’t you wish you had my ox”

HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER EX. 20:12• Does your profile honor your father and

mother?

• Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

DO ALL THINGS WITHOUT COMPLAINING AND DISPUTING• Philippians 2:14-15 – “14 Do all things without

complaining and disputing, 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,”

EDIFY AND IMPART GRACE

• Ephesians 4:29-31 – “29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.”

EDIFY AND IMPART GRACE

• Ephesians 4:29-31 – “29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.”

EDIFY AND IMPART GRACE

• Ephesians 4:29-31 – “29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.”

TEACH WISELY

• Are you able to teach?• 2 Tim. 2:23 – “23 But avoid foolish and ignorant

disputes, knowing that they generate strife. 24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”

WHO IS YOUR TOP FRIEND?

• The World - James 4:4• “4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that

friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. “

• Jesus - John 15:14-15• 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command

you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.