“God created the canvas of truth for men’s and women’s minds, but fifty shades of gray came crashing in during this first garden incident. The number is more like 50100 shades of gray. Do you feel this? If you are attempting to follow the “one God”—you feel it, see it, hear it, and smell it spiritually—many snakes are talking today. In this screen-dominated world, our minds are confused with promises of productivity and peace from a universe of far-advancing electronic technology. This advancing tech constructs a different approach in our exposure to the canvas of truth within our churches.
Ready for simplicity? Ready for a single mind? Ready for a singleness of heart? Who wants it back? Anyone game for one picture to fix your eyes? Our minds are confused with flooding photos through shades of gray. How about singleness of purpose? Humankind is the center of God’s creation. We are His favorites. One .jpg saved on the heart’s mind. One .jpg is also saved on the mind’s heart.
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Fix Your Eyes, Fix Your Church
Randle J. Record
ONE (1) FIX Your Eyes, FIX Your Family
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Fix The Delivery Systems – Excerpt from FIX Your Eyes, FIX Your Family, pages 61-63
Fixing the delivery systems naturally leads us to think about companies such as UPS, FedEx, MayFlower Moving, Amazon, U-Haul, or other truck delivery businesses. The ordering process is much faster today, so packages arrive quicker. If this is true in the package business industry, how much truer is it in the thought-life business? Deliveries are made to our worldview every minute. Worldview shaping packages are ordered through an electronic device at record-breaking speed. The Pony Express has been “OUTPACED.” No more waiting at a mailbox for the postman to deliver. It is a cyber, unseen movement -invisible in the air- of information and goods delivered to the one who orders and asks for it by means of a computer, phone, or tablet browser with no cash needed. It is all invisible money. We can now load unseen cash on a phone app and pay without the sight of hard-cold cash. The negative emotion of handing over hard cash is gone. Delivery is nearly instantaneously provided in large cities and accomplished through the unseen movement of information through invisible lines of delivery confirmation directly onto our devices, in our pockets and purses. Our grandparents, parents, and we used to pick up a phone device connected to a wall with a spongy cord. It was a landline telephone. We would place our orders by phone and then wait, with no text or email upon delivery confirmation. We were waiting and staying at the mercy of thepeople taking the order. Parents of the past had to order items by sending an order form, which they would complete with a writing pen and mail through the United States Post Office. The Pony Express is in the stable, resting within this new electronic world. The pony is now an electronic cyborg. Things have changed. Electronically, humans have an alternative ranking system based on prestige, which people willingly confer to those in the ranking evaluation system. People can perceive excellence for themselves, but it’s more efficient to rely on the judgments of others. It is a Yelp world. If most people say Frank is the best archer in your community, and if you value archery, you’ll “look up” Frank even if you’ve never seen him shoot an arrow. Accountability online for businesses comes much quicker. This is good for capitalism, but the other sinful, fake information comes just as quickly. Facebook’s founders knew they were creating something addictive that exploited “a vulnerability in human psychology” from the outset, according to the company’s founding president Sean Parker.
“I don’t know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying,” he added, pointing to “unintended consequences” when a network (Facebook) grows to have more than 2 billion users. “It literally changes your relationship with society and with each other. It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains (Sean Parker, former founding president of Facebook),” he said. He explained that when Facebook was being developed, the objective was: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” This mindset led to the creation of features such as the “like” button that would give users “a little dopamine hit” to encourage them to upload more content. “It’s a social-validation feedback loop … exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”3
Delivery systems have changed. As the AntMan stated in one of the Marvel movies, “Five hours is five minutes — it is quantum.” That makes anyone a believer that this realm called Earth has gone “quantum” andis super fast. Our expectations drive us to a realm of expectancy on Earth that may soon crush all our expectations. To be strictly realistic, we will not always control the delivery systems of today’s mediums. We may temporarily disconnect them, but they will always be available for any business or pleasure we desire. It is called the Internet. Social psychologist Jean Twenge’s groundbreaking work shows that what causes generations to differ goes beyond the events children experience (such as wars and depressions) and includes changes in the technologies they used as children (radio, then television, personal computers,the internet, the iPhone).4
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Fix Your Eyes, Fix Your Family
Randle J. Record
