LOGOS Unplugged: Message Resources

Unplugged: Ima­ging God in a High Tech World

In the begin­ning God planted a garden and He put us in it: “Fill the earth and sub­due it! Tend and care for this planet as I tend and care for you.” When we garden God’s way, we mir­ror His image to all cre­ation. “And God saw all that He had made, and it was very good.”

The call to cul­tiv­ate lies behind cul­ture, while the com­mis­sion to sub­due the world requires study and tech­nique — the found­a­tion for sci­ence and tech­no­logy. It’s no coin­cid­ence that the Bib­lical story starts in a garden and ends in a land­scaped city. Sci­ence and tech­no­logy are part of God’s plan to bless the world and reflect His image. And to vary­ing degrees, as God sees the tools we use and the cul­ture we’ve made, He still pro­nounces it “very good.”

The issue is how we jour­ney from the garden to the city. On that tra­gic day when we ate the for­bid­den fruit, tech­no­logy became both a bless­ing and a curse. Would our sci­ence care for or con­sume this garden planet? Do our devices draw us into God’s pres­ence, or depress our desire for His King­dom? Would our tech­niques to form and trans­form the world mag­nify or mutil­ate the image of God in us?

How would Jesus live in this kind of world? If we’re ser­i­ously about fol­low­ing Jesus and seek­ing first His King­dom, then how should we live in an elec­tronic environment?

How do we image God in a high tech world? It’s time to get unplugged.

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