How Entertainment Can Negatively Affect Our Prayer Life

There are wonderful benefits to technology for the Christian. We can access devotions, commentaries, Bible translations, and other resources quickly, easily, and inexpensively.

 

But we need to address the fact that technology has brought changes to modern entertainment, changes that can affect our attention spans and priorities.

Even as early as the 1980's we were seeing changes in television programing. Shows were becoming more fast-paced requiring no more than a few seconds of concentration at a time. According to one early study, in a typical hour, “viewers’ attention was forced to shift over eight hundred times.”

As you can imagine, since the 80's, technology has become even more fast-paced. 

Most Christians realize that we should avoid ungodly programing (Psalm 101:3; Ephesians 5:11), but too much entertainment of any kind can affect our thinking skills, attention spans, and priorities.

We won't grow as Christians if we neglect time in our Bible and time in prayer. As Romans 12:2-3 explains, we must be actively involved in transforming our minds, changing the way we think, and understanding God's will for us. And that requires dedicated concentration and time.

So let's put Bible study and prayer in proper priority. We desperately need God's wisdom if we are going to deal wisely with the pressures of our declining culture.

Resource/quotes: Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, Warning, Nonsense is Destroying America. Thomas Nelson, 1994, p.25.

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For more encouragement, see Transforming Our Deformed Minds and Romans 12:1-2: Grateful and Transforming.

 

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