Mental Musings

Updated: February 2, 2016. Social Media is often just a tool to connect with friends and family, but every once in awhile you post something that goes viral. The tools used to determine if a post is viral are all relative to the expected reach of a user. A user with a million followers would need many millions of views for the post to be viral. Basically if your Facebook post has a Reach that is 5 times the number of those that follow your Page then the post has gone viral. There is no method to determine what people will find interesting enough to share or retweet or copy. Sometimes it is a video of a British child saying, "Charlie bit my finger." Sometimes it is a meme of what old people say. Sometimes it is uplifting and sometimes it is degrading. Sometimes comical and sometimes sentimental. I want to share with you how one of the posts from our church Facebook Page went viral. It started as just one of the many hundreds of daily posts that we put up. We have found t

Researchers continue to seek the reason for the New Exodus among churches. Each year about 4000 churches close their doors forever. Each year thousands of young adults quit attending church. Only a handful of evangelical denominations continue to see growth, but even those have noticed the downward trend in church attendance. Based on the most recent research, hundreds of Christian writers will begin to suggest what these results indicate for the church. The fact that these so-called experts do not agree with each other is indicative of just how serious of a problem the Church has in reaching the younger generations. I believe that the reason that we cannot see the whole picture is because most Christians have chosen to take their eyes off of God and instead turned them to their own selfish desires. There is nothing the enemy loves more than to see us fighting against each other. Every time a prominent Christian leader is attacked by other prominent Christian leaders w