Richard Swenson:
The best thing to remember about time-saving technologies is that they don’t. Instead, they consume, compress, and devour time. All the countries with the most time-saving technologies are the most stressed-out countries–an assertion that is easy to prove.One Christian executive reports that he receives 1800 e-mails each day, while a Pentagon leader told me he had to do sixteen hours of e-mails every Saturday from home.While standing at the hospital bed of a dying man, a pastor interrupted his prayer to answer his cell phone.A youth pastor reported that he loved his job and tolerated long hours well–until he got home and routinely saw the answering machine blinking 9 messages. The escalating use of accessible technologies MUST be controlled, for the sake of your spirit and your sanity. (Margin, 124).
I know, easier said than done. But just reading about a pastor answering his cell phone at the death bed is enough to scare me straight. We need it.
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