Comments on: The Minds of our Youth http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/ theology. church. culture. life. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Agent Tim Online :: Culture And Theology--Hand In Hand http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1857 Agent Tim Online :: Culture And Theology--Hand In Hand Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:18:08 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1857 [...] With all of this talk about worship on the web, some of which has been productive, some has not, I’ve been really thinking hard about it. Yesterday, I was doing my devotions, reading My Utmost For My Highest. It was an incredible devotion that day, striking at the heart of why so many people’s worship is empty. [...] [...] With all of this talk about worship on the web, some of which has been productive, some has not, I’ve been really thinking hard about it. Yesterday, I was doing my devotions, reading My Utmost For My Highest. It was an incredible devotion that day, striking at the heart of why so many people’s worship is empty. [...]

]]> By: Ryan DeBarr http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1856 Ryan DeBarr Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:25:53 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1856 I'll play Captain Obvious here: What we must do is find a way to hold on to the great things of the past while adopting new technology. There's no doubt that the Internet has had many positive benefits. The amount of information available from a Google search is tremendous, and there's no way we can turn back from it now. As far as the effect on the Internet generation... I grew up with two TV channels and had to climb on the roof and move the antennae to change the channel. But I had Internet access in 1992, a little less than half my life. The Internet didn't really become common until 1995, so those who have grown up with the Internet are no more than ten years old. We won't begin to know for another decade what the impact of the Internet has been. Scary. I’ll play Captain Obvious here:

What we must do is find a way to hold on to the great things of the past while adopting new technology.

There’s no doubt that the Internet has had many positive benefits. The amount of information available from a Google search is tremendous, and there’s no way we can turn back from it now.

As far as the effect on the Internet generation… I grew up with two TV channels and had to climb on the roof and move the antennae to change the channel. But I had Internet access in 1992, a little less than half my life. The Internet didn’t really become common until 1995, so those who have grown up with the Internet are no more than ten years old. We won’t begin to know for another decade what the impact of the Internet has been. Scary.

]]> By: Joe Thorn http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1855 Joe Thorn Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:32:40 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1855 True Ben. Thanks for sharing. When Jen (my wife) and I were dating in college we wrote letters back and forth during the summers when she left Chicago to return to Germany. Man, if anyone should hold onto the tradition of letter writing it should be the church. Our long history of letter wrighting, of course, goes back to the Scriptures themselves. True Ben. Thanks for sharing. When Jen (my wife) and I were dating in college we wrote letters back and forth during the summers when she left Chicago to return to Germany. Man, if anyone should hold onto the tradition of letter writing it should be the church. Our long history of letter wrighting, of course, goes back to the Scriptures themselves.

]]> By: Ben http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1854 Ben Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:37:41 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1854 "Long time listener, first time caller..." I'm actually exchanging handwritten letters with a girl I'm courting/dating right now since we're separated by a couple of states, and those letters are much deeper, more meaningful, and more revealing of who the person is than our emails/phone conversations ever are. Imagine, having to write several pages that are deep enough not to be irrelevant 3 days later when the other person receives it! Of course, then I read a letter written by pretty much ANYONE that lived more than 100 years ago and I just sit back in awe! I wish I could write like they did! “Long time listener, first time caller…”

I’m actually exchanging handwritten letters with a girl I’m courting/dating right now since we’re separated by a couple of states, and those letters are much deeper, more meaningful, and more revealing of who the person is than our emails/phone conversations ever are. Imagine, having to write several pages that are deep enough not to be irrelevant 3 days later when the other person receives it!

Of course, then I read a letter written by pretty much ANYONE that lived more than 100 years ago and I just sit back in awe! I wish I could write like they did!

]]> By: Joe Thorn http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1853 Joe Thorn Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:50:02 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/04/08/the-minds-of-our-youth/#comment-1853 I think everyone would agree that email has destroyed letter writing, and I believe letter writing is something to hold on to and cultivate. I do not think these guys are suugesting that there are not negative implications for these things along with a more positive influence over what we were seeing in the 80's. I also wonder if there is a difference bewteen those growing up with these forms of communication and those of us who inherited them in adulthood. I really don't know, but am very interested in reading more on the subject. I think everyone would agree that email has destroyed letter writing, and I believe letter writing is something to hold on to and cultivate.

I do not think these guys are suugesting that there are not negative implications for these things along with a more positive influence over what we were seeing in the 80′s. I also wonder if there is a difference bewteen those growing up with these forms of communication and those of us who inherited them in adulthood. I really don’t know, but am very interested in reading more on the subject.

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