Flooding or Floundering. How are we living up to the invitation of Elder Bednar?
Through an apostolic invitation, Elder Bednar urged us all to, 'sweep the earth as with a flood through social media.' We've seen the efforts of the church to use technology as a tool to spread our beliefs to every corner of the earth with swipes, clicks, shares and hash-tags. Now we've been asked as members to further that work through our own efforts and to use our personal accounts as tools, potentially reaching millions and in a collaborative effort to flood the earth with our good and happy teachings and messages of hope. How have we fared? We are given guidelines from Elder Bednar, the four points are as follows: 1. Be authentic and consistent. 2. Edify and uplift. 3. Respect Intellectual Property. 4. Be wise and vigilant. So essentially, the four ways we can go wrong with this is invitation is to: 1. Share because everyone else is doing it and we want to fit in. 2. Complain about the barrage of spiritual posts now filling your ...