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Dr Bex LewisDirector: Digital Fingerprint; The Big Bible Project

Research Fellow in Social Media & Online Learning, CODEC, University of Durham

https://twitter.com/drbexl

Key Verse for Today:

Key Verse: “What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it – we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are.” 1 John 3:1 (MSG)

‘BEING’ a Child of God…

DISCUSS: What words/images come to mind when you think about BEING a child of God?

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Child of God (Google Images)

http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/10/praying-with-a-pen-or-keypad-in-hand-johnschaplain-digidisciple/

What does it mean to truly Be?

Nelson Mandela • Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is

that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. (Anon)

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Luke 6:45 (NIV)

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Inside each and every one of us is our one true,

authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that’s

ours and ours alone. Something that can’t be

learning… something that’s got to be

remembered.

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Gary Collins (Christian Life Coach)

If you're a Christian, seeking to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, you'll approach every aspect of your life from this perspective. Your commitment to Christ will impact your marriage, parenting, lifestyle, values, spending, time management, vocation ...

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Stephen Fry (via Twitter)

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate.

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Kofi Annan (UN)

To live is to choose. but to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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THINK: What are your passions?

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Jesus is…

• … and therefore we are called to be… Courageous.

• 1 Corinthians 16:13. • Be on Guard. Stand firm in the

faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

http://www.wordnik.com/words/courage

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/authentic

A ‘digital fingerprint’…

Our identity as children…

It is only out of this redeemed identity, out of who we are in Christ, that we can hope to bear fruit in the world.

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Being ‘Real’ 24/7Image Credit: Seed Resources

Putting our lives on display?

Human Beings at Machines, not “are machines” …

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/192333

Extrovert/Introvert?

“If an alien visited…”

… and all they had to see was your Facebook page (or other ‘public’ profile).. What would their perception of your life be?

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http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/10/whats-the-point-of-it-all-digidisciple-frdavidcloake/

• One issue that I have with social media in a Christian context is the terminology. I am uncomfortable being able to count my own ‘followers’ and take no real pleasure from the knowledge that I ‘influence’ X number of people. The fact is, I am the follower and I am the one influenced.

Why be online? @FrDavidCloake• Whilst I cannot conclude my thinking in a wholly positive

way, I acknowledge that great use of all of this to my own personal discipleship. I am a broader Christian, a better informed Christian, a more readily supported and sustained Christian and for that I love this digital life. If that makes me a better Christian, then perhaps its purpose is served if a purpose exists and indeed if a purpose is needed. However, I shall continue to pray that someone, somewhere, can say with absolute clarity that because of this digital community, they came to Christ.

http://www.eauk.org/church/campaigns/confidence-in-the-gospel/

Where has God placed us?

http://pamsperambulation.wordpress.com

http://jacksdavie.wordpress.com

http://tanyamarlow.com/

DISCUSS: Who is my neighbour?• What does it mean to ‘love your neighbour’ in a world in which a

‘friend’ might as easily be the kid from down the street you grew up with as a woman in Botswana whom you’ve never seen in person and only know in the context of Facebook status updates, photos, and notes? What is the nature of community at prayer in a compline service tweeted each evening by the cybermonks of a Virtual Abbey? What is the ecclesiological and liturgical significant of worship in various churches across the theological spectrum on the quasi-3D, virtual reality site ‘Second Life’? How can we negotiate spiritual interaction in these contexts without losing sight of basic elements of Christian faith expressed in traditional embodied and geographically located practices of prayer, worship, and compassion towards others?

• Tweet if You Heart Jesus, p.xiv

‘Make disciples of all nations’

• Do you feel comfortable in the online spaces?• Which particular spaces do you feel you can

work in? – Platform?– Subject area?

• Do you feel you can support those who are in the online spaces?

@drbexl @digitalfprint @bigbible

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End on a PrayerFather, Creator God,You sent your Word, Jesus Christ, to reveal your love and compassion to the world; you have called us to be his disciples, true images of your beloved Son,proclaiming his Gospel to all creation.His story is now our story.Keep us faithful to what we have received, and generous in our sharing.Holy Father, we thank you also for the gift of the Holy Spiritwhom you sent to sanctify and bless all you have createdand be the bond of love that unites all of us with you and your Son.Send forth your Spirit upon us now.Purify our hearts and make us attentive to your promptingsthat we may be true missionaries in the digital world.Grant us the humility to seek you above and before all other thingsthat all we say and do may be done in your name and for your glory.We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

http://www.ibenedictines.org/2012/10/21/a-prayer-for-the-christian-new-media-conference-cnmac12/

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