When I learned to be a speaker, I would give a studies to a group of people who had been in the church of God for decades. They were very knowledgeable and it was kind of silly for me to be teaching them. I did everything I could to try and get the group to discuss during Bible study time rather than just listening to me. We had microphones to pass around and it was totally set up for them to contribute, but they would never ever say a peep. They just sat there stoic. You couldn’t even tell if what you were saying was being received well or not.
Until I said something wrong. Then the hands would pop up and everybody would start talking.
So, I started purposely saying things wrong to get them talking.
Now I’m looking at my Twitter feed and seeing wrong reporting and ridiculous conspiracies getting incredible engagement. It appears that I’m not the only one who has figured this out.
Downside in the next comment.
Chris Deweese
What’s happening today with people posting all of this nonsense that gets millions of views is that people are walking around thinking what they just read was true. There is no correction. This is how we have people wanting to change the canon of scripture, misunderstanding actual news, reports and history, challenging the shape of the planet, and even beginning to doubt the Holocaust.
James 3:1-5 talks about the power of the tongue and how our ability to teach and speak, can send people in the wrong direction. I don’t know how society is going to correct this, but when it comes to matters of scripture, please actually read your Bibles so you know if somebody is telling you the truth or not.
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