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Mike is a former senior pastor and church planter in the Pacific Northwest, and served for three years as the executive producer of The Albert Mohler Program, a nationally syndicated radio show dedicated to Christianity and culture. Mike is a Ph.D. Candidate in American church history at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary writing his dissertation on radio and the American church during the period 1920 to 1950. Mike is husband to Julia and father to four wonderful children: Samuel (9), Anna (7), John (6) and Michael (1). When not reading, writing or editing, Mike loves sports, music and hanging out with his family.
During church yesterday a teenager in the seats in front of us used his iPhone throughout the sermon to text friends and play checkers with his younger brother. I noticed the dad was constantly checking his BlackBerry as well. Like father, like son.
It seems to me that this is a perfect example of when technology has become an unhelpful distraction. And while we didn't say anything to the family, we wondered over lunch whether we should have. After all, the family in front of us wasn't getting all they could out of church and, given our site lines, we weren't either.
Was the most loving response silence?
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