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Job: “I have made a covenant with my eyes … if my heart has gone after my eyes …�� (Job 31:1,7)
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Calvin’s sermon (1574):
“If we had no eyes, we wouldn’t have such means to behold God’s glory in all ways as we do. But we are so contrary that we use our eyes completely against God’s will. For our eyes dazzle and deceive us, and whenever they open, it is to drag us away and make us run astray, so that we become like wild animals, full of wild and unruly lusts. And beyond that, they are like two firebrands that set us aflame. While they should receive God’s glory to transform us accordingly, instead they receive Satan’s firebrands to ignite all our emotions, with the result that our whole desire might be to offend our God and to advance ourselves against him. This point we should mark well, so that each of us might be cautious. Since we cannot completely rid ourselves of our weakness and corruption—as our eyes will be wandering and draw us away, and there will always be sudden thoughts to lure us toward evil—let us at least bridle our hearts and let not our affections go wandering with our eyes.”
“Plans are afoot for a ‘reality show-style reveal’ of the [VP] pick Monday night …”
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DFW: “I think we as a culture are afraid to teach ourselves that pleasure is dangerous, and that some kinds of pleasure are better than others” (#competingspectacles, 121).
God authored the weakness of his apostles, a screenplay to exhibit (ἀπέδειξεν) his actors on a cosmic stage (θέατρον). To the world, a lurid and grisly spectacle of the condemned. To angels and the church, a spectacle of victory and progress (1 Cor. 4:9). #competingspectacles
Jamieson/Wittman: 🔥 “What the vision of God as our telos helps us to see is that we are attention-shaped creatures. Where our attention goes, our affections and actions follow.” 🔥 #biblicalreasoning #competingspectacles
New translations in hand!! #competingspectacles made its way to South Korea (left). #12waysyourphoneischangingyou made its way to South Korea (middle) and Italy (right).
Moments like these are what the attention market/spectacle age feed on. #competingspectacles
"Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna write a number on this paper estimating how much attention this Oscar slap thing deserves. I think you'll find it's a very large, very generous number, and I advise you to accept it."
[Slides paper across desk.]
Internet: Not even close.
Preparing to preach again on the topic of Christ in the attention economy, and wow, there’s so much to say that didn’t fit into #competingspectacles.
1/ The message of #competingspectacles (2019), relevant for hundreds of years prior: “It is a wonder to see how men are carried away with a liking of vain shows, games, and comedies: how they spend even whole days in beholding them, and their money also that they may …
“May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.” (2Th 3:5)
Riveting my heart on what matters most requires supernatural initiative. Make it so, Lord!
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“Therefore we must pay *much closer attention* [περισσοτέρως] to what we have heard, lest we DRIFT away from it.” (Heb. 2:1)
Attentional negligence marks a gradual drift away from our anchor, Christ, one of the spiritual wars inside the attention economy.
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Translations: The French version of #CompetingSpectacles drops in a couple weeks from Publications Chrétiennes. https://t.co/rQ7imqFcmL 🇫🇷
DFW: “*The Simpsons* is important art. It’s also relentlessly corrosive to the soul. Everything is parodied and everything is ridiculous. I can be steeped in about an hour of it before I have to walk away and look at a flower or something.” #competingspectacles
Check out this paragraph from the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee’s 16-month investigation into the state of competition in the digital economy, published yesterday. #competingspectacles
In this “attention economy” our eye-time translates into wealth for others — views, plays, votes, and sales. The battle for your attention leads to what I call #competingspectacles. The Christian’s challenge is to “pay much closer attention” to what really matters (Heb. 2:1).
Charnock: “When we flutter from God to gaze at every feather and run after every bubble, we disown a satisfying sweetness in him.”
Feathers and bubbles. Twitter and Facebook. To believe is to strive against neglecting our greatest Joy.
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One of the most fulfilling commendations I hear from readers is from those who say #CompetingSpectacles is the first book they have read cover to cover in years. That was, in part, my aim, to write a book many people could read entirely.
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