How Technology can be a Help and not a Hindrance in Your Church Life.

I remember when my parish first got a folk band. The thought was "They are almost playing rock and roll in church!" Being a deeply religious youth, I didn't mind it, and guess what, the band is still there! Growing up most of my life without the internet, made it easy for me to develop skills, appreciate my environment, and helped me live most if not all my life focused in the present moment. I never imagined a day where computers would be used to contact God. Naturally God is a spirit and we don't need any enhancements to experience Him. While we are in our bodies on the earth, God is watching so that one day, when we see Him we will be judged. I naturally learned to practise the presence of God in my 20's and I had wonderful experiences of Him in nature, in my soul, and in other human beings.

I didn't need a device to read my bible, or contact God, it was all real and natural. Human beings like things that make life easier, but having a relationship with the Creator wasn't meant to be easy. Faith comes with a cost, and the moment we try to enhance that gift, I believe we offend Our Lord and fail to give Him glory or properly Hallow His Name (1st Commandment). We want to use the things God gives us to bring us closer to Heaven, and we never want to use people or things for our own purposes.

Part of being on a path is to come closer and closer to your goal, which would be heaven for some of us, and when anything gets in our way, we show that we are just seeking the toys and not the real thing. If technology can be proven to enhance our faith, then it would be good! Change is difficult for some people and not all people of faith want the same kind of heaven. Some people desire a hedonistic place where all our desires are given to us, while others see heaven as a place of rest and holiness. Only the Lord knows what awaits us, but to believe that somehow, after the resurrection, we will need things to enhance our experience of the divine presence, would be false. God's glory one day will consume us, and the Bliss we will be living in will be real.

It's OK now to supplement your faith by or with technology, but you should never try to find God fully

through it. This is Mike.

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