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Call Me Old Fashion

Can I be honest for a minute? I am a pastor of a rural church in West Virginia. Every pastor I know is posting videos to social media and I can’t bring myself to do it. I am not sure if it is a lack of confidence. I have always struggled with that. There are so many amazing pastors and leaders who are posting high-quality videos, do I even want to add to the noise? There are better preachers and smarter experts and who am I?

Or maybe, closer to the truth, is that I struggle with competence. I’ll be honest, when I sit down to record a video, which I have tried to do multiple times this week, I can’t help but think I must be feeling what my grandfather felt when I would ask him to play video games. He never got the point, but he was amazed by the life-like graphics of the Atari 2600. I don’t know how to stand, I don’t know the right angle of the camera, or which side is my good side.

But maybe the main reason I can’t bring myself to post a video to social media is that my message would be to turn off social media! I know it is a blessing to have the greatest preachers in our world available at our fingertips, but it is a bigger blessing that you have your family that close to you…