“I will be vigilant in my consumption of popular media culture, recognising that it is often characterised by superficiality, soullessness, and spiritual delusion; yet because I recognise its importance and potential, I will actively take my place as a cultural particpant healthily, not as a cultural glutton or a cultural anorexic.”
It is so easy to feed the wrong things in our exploration of media. Vigilance is a good word in this area. It would be easy too to avoid interaction with internet media and blogs like this because of the rubbish proliferated on it, yet real people with genuine needs are behind the masks seen in the posts and names. Do we need our eyes opened to see that these people are more like the Samaritan women that Jesus met by the well and to whom he shared that he could give her real water- the water of life. I see in the expressions proliferated a thirst for life. Jesus’s answer to the women at the well (John 4:13) is ‘those who drink the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water i give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’ Find the real deal in following Jesus.
