How Social Media Makes My Sundays Even Better

Sundays are just wonderful! While I get nervous about preaching, I always love the opportunity to gather with people who love the Lord and the honor of coming before Him to praise and glorify His name.

For most preachers, Sundays are a bit of an odd day. Besides preaching, there is usually study time, and often there are meetings or other services (nursing home, for example) to attend. This is not a complaint, because all these things are great. It is just to say that most preachers don’t get a consistent “down time” on Sunday like a lot of people do. All of these opportunities are wonderful, and they only make Sunday even better.

But there is something else that just adds icing to the cake of an already great day. And it involves social media, especially Facebook.

It is when I get to see notes and pictures of new Christians all over the world.

Each Sunday, I see a handful of updates praising God for someone coming to Christ in baptism. Often, these updates are accompanied by pictures, which may all look similar, but they never get old.

Of course, these updates come at other times, too (which is always exciting), but there is just something special about this constant reminder on the Lord’s Day of His great, saving power.

I am always touched by these updates, no matter what congregation, city, or even country they come from. It is also, as you can imagine, special when I get to update with this great news from Lebanon Road. But every update is a reminder of how wonderful our God is, and that someone else is now on his or her journey toward heaven.

In a world that wants to squelch religious talk, and in the social media world that is too-often filled with negative rants, I get such great encouragement each time I see these updates.

My prayer is that there are more and more every Lord’s Day…and every other day.

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