A keynote presentation prepared for Middle Tennessee Presbytery. Sorry the comments, stories, citations, reflections, and questions aren't part of it -- guess you had to be there :)

1. The Ten
Commandments
2.0
Adam J. Copeland
Stewardship of Technology in Today’s Church
Presbytery of Middle Tennessee

2. Introduction

3. A Few Things
to Remember

4. A Few Things
to Remember
Internet is relatively young

5. A Few Things
to Remember
Internet is relatively young

6. A Few Things
to Remember
Internet is relatively young
The Church needs to remain
vital in a more digital era

7. GA Social Media Policy

8. “Social media has become a normal and
integral part of our lives as a society. It covers
an ever-evolving collection of programs and
devices like Twitter, email, texting and
Facebook. It might be tempting to dismiss
these new technologies as tangential to the
Church. They could be ignored, banned, or
acknowledged. What we canʼt do is to expect
that social media is not a normal part of life for
many members, visitors, youth, and their
families....

9. ....Social media is not a fad, it is a
fundamental shift in the way we
communicate.
-General Assembly, Social Media Policy

10. Thanks to onlineschools.org for serving as inspiration and providing the data through "Obsessed With
Facebook" onlineschools.org/ blog/ facebook-obsession | An informational motion graphics piece by
Alex Trimpe | Music by RJD2
! Click here to play

11. FaithLife | DigitalLife

12. Ten
Commandments
as Guide

13. Reformed Perspective
on the Law

14. Reformed Perspective
on the Law
• 3 uses of the law

15. Reformed Perspective
on the Law
• 3 uses of the law
• 1st use: shows us our sin (moral use)

16. Reformed Perspective
on the Law
• 3 uses of the law
• 1st use: shows us our sin (moral use)
• 2nd use: civil use (restrains behavior for the
public good)

17. Reformed Perspective
on the Law
• 3 uses of the law
• 1st use: shows us our sin (moral use)
• 2nd use: civil use (restrains behavior for the
public good)
• 3rd use: primary use, pedagogical, “help a
brother out” use

18. “Principally [the law] admonishes believers and
urges them on in well doing.”

23. Law!

24. 1st
Commandment
"You shall have no other gods
before me" (Ex. 20:3; Deut. 5:7).

25. 1st
Commandment
2.0
“Your cell phone is not a god, so
don’t treat it that way.”

26. "You shall not make for
yourself an idol"
(Ex. 20:4; Deut. 5:8).

27. 2.0
Do not worship technology.
Period.

28. “With it, it’s not just that
I remember people or
know more. I feel
invincible, sociable,
better prepared. I am
naked without it. With
it, I’m a better person”
Alone Together, p. 152

29. "You shall not make
wrongful use of the
name of the Lord your
God."
(Ex. 20:7; Deut. 5:11)

40. 2.0
When you make a comment
online, do not do so unless it’s
grace-filled and charitable.

41. "Remember the Sabbath Day,
and keep it holy" (Ex. 20:8;
Deut. 5:12)

42. “I would no more make a new-agey call
to find inner peace than I would
encourage a return to the
mimeograph. But I do believe that there
has to be a way to regularly impose
some thoughtfulness, or at least calm,
into modern life – or at least my
version. Once I moved beyond the fear
of being unavailable and what it might
cost me, I experienced what, if I wasn’t
such a skeptic, I would call a lightness of
being. I felt connected to myself rather
than my computer. I had time to think,
and distance from normal demands. I
got to stop.”
-Mark Bittman, NY Times, “I need a virtual break. no really!”

43. 2.0
"Remember sabbath extends to
digital life as well; keep it
holy.” (Ex. 20:8; Deut. 5:12)

44. "Honor your father and your
mother" (Ex. 20:12; Deut. 5:16).

45. 2.0
Before posting or reposting
online, double-check and think
twice hereby making your
father, mother, and all in
authority very happy.

46. ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS of
your cell are now on facebook!
Go to the top right of the
screen, click on ACCOUNT,
click on EDIT FRIENDS, left side
of screen and click
CONTACTS.You will see ALL
phone numbers from your cell
phone (FB friends or not) are
published that you have stored
in your mobile phone. TO
REMOVE, go to the right...

47. "You shall not murder" (Ex.
20:13; Deut. 5:17).

48. 2.0
Use technology for peace.

49. "You shall not commit
adultery" (Ex. 20:14; Deut. 5:18).

50. 2.0
You shall not multi-life without
reflection.

51. “Second Life gives me a better relationship that I
have in real life. This is where I feel most myself.
Jade accepts who I am. My relationship with Jade
makes it possible for me to stay in my marriage,
with my family.” -Alone Together

52. "You shall not steal" (Ex. 20:15;
Deut. 5:19).

53. 2.0
Consider your time spent on
digital life; use it wisely to glorify
and enjoy God.

54. "You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor" (Ex.
20:16; Deut. 5:20)

55. 2.0
You shall have access to the
most recent (and correct) ideas,
information, and sources while
also helping others gain equal
access.

56. "You shall not covet what is your
neighbor's"
(Ex. 20:17; Deut. 5:21)

57. 2.0
You shall use technology to
love--and not covet--love all...yes
even those people.

58. Final Thoughts
Worship & Technology