Day 3 session on 'Be' for the Click Zone

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Dr Bex Lewis
Director: Digital Fingerprint; The Big Bible Project
Research Fellow in Social Media & Online
Learning, CODEC, University of Durham

2. https://twitter.com/drbexl

3. Key Verse for Today:
Key Verse: “What marvelous love the
Father has extended to us! Just look
at it – we’re called children of God!
That’s who we really are.” 1 John 3:1
(MSG)

4. ‘BEING’ a Child of God…
DISCUSS: What
words/images
come to mind
when you think
about BEING a
child of God?
Image Credit: Seed Resources

5. Child of God (Google Images)

6. http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/10/praying-with-a-pen-
or-keypad-in-hand-johnschaplain-digidisciple/

7. What does it mean to truly Be?

8. Nelson Mandela
• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you
not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve
the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to
shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our
own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Image Credit: Wikipedia

9. How does one
become a butterfly?
You must want to
fly so much that you
are willing to give up
being a caterpillar.
(Anon)
Image Credit: Wikipedia

10. Luke 6:45 (NIV)
A good man brings good things out
of the good stored up in his heart,
and an evil man brings evil things
out of the evil stored up in his
heart. For the mouth speaks what
the heart is full of.

11. The Legend of Bagger Vance
Inside each and every one
of us is our one true,
authentic swing.
Something we was born
with. Something that’s
ours and ours alone.
Something that can’t be
learning… something
that’s got to be
remembered.
Image Credit: Wikipedia

12. Gary Collins (Christian Life Coach)
If you're a Christian, seeking
to walk in the footsteps of
Jesus, you'll approach every
aspect of your life from this
perspective. Your
commitment to Christ will
impact your marriage,
parenting, lifestyle, values,
spending, time
management, vocation ...
Image Credit: Gary Collins website

13. Stephen Fry (via Twitter)
Stop wanting wealth
and fame and start
wanting instead to
do something well
about which you are
passionate.
Image Credit: Wikipedia

14. Kofi Annan (UN)
To live is to choose.
but to choose well,
you must know who
you are and what
you stand for, where
you want to go
and why you want to
get there.
Image Credit: Wikipedia

15. THINK: What are your passions?
Image Credit: Seed Resources

16. Jesus is…
• … and therefore we are called to
be… Courageous.
• 1 Corinthians 16:13.
• Be on Guard. Stand firm in the
faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

17. http://www.wordnik.com/words/
courage

18. http://dictionary.reference.com/bro
wse/authentic

19. A ‘digital fingerprint’…

20. Image Credit: Seed Resources
Our identity as children…
It is only out of
this redeemed
identity, out of
who we are in
Christ, that we
can hope to bear
fruit in the world.

21. Image Credit: Seed Resources
Being ‘Real’ 24/7

22. Putting our lives on display?

23. Human Beings at Machines, not “are
machines” …
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/192333

24. Extrovert/Introvert?

25. “If an alien visited…”
… and all they
had to see was
your Facebook
page (or other
‘public’ profile)..
What would
their perception
of your life be?
Image: RGB Stock

26. http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/10/whats-the-
point-of-it-all-digidisciple-frdavidcloake/
• One issue that I have with social media in a
Christian context is the terminology. I am
uncomfortable being able to count my own
‘followers’ and take no real pleasure from the
knowledge that I ‘influence’ X number of
people. The fact is, I am the follower and I am
the one influenced.

27. Why be online? @FrDavidCloake
• Whilst I cannot conclude my thinking in a wholly positive
way, I acknowledge that great use of all of this to my own
personal discipleship. I am a broader Christian, a better
informed Christian, a more readily supported and sustained
Christian and for that I love this digital life. If that makes
me a better Christian, then perhaps its purpose is served
if a purpose exists and indeed if a purpose is needed.
However, I shall continue to pray that someone,
somewhere, can say with absolute clarity that because of
this digital community, they came to Christ.

28. http://www.eauk.org/church/campai
gns/confidence-in-the-gospel/

29. Where has God placed us?

30. http://pamsperambulation.wordpres
s.com

31. http://jacksdavie.wordpress.com

32. http://tanyamarlow.com/

33. DISCUSS: Who is my neighbour?
• What does it mean to ‘love your neighbour’ in a world in which a
‘friend’ might as easily be the kid from down the street you grew up
with as a woman in Botswana whom you’ve never seen in person
and only know in the context of Facebook status updates, photos,
and notes? What is the nature of community at prayer in a compline
service tweeted each evening by the cybermonks of a Virtual
Abbey? What is the ecclesiological and liturgical significant of
worship in various churches across the theological spectrum on the
quasi-3D, virtual reality site ‘Second Life’? How can we negotiate
spiritual interaction in these contexts without losing sight of
basic elements of Christian faith expressed in traditional
embodied and geographically located practices of prayer,
worship, and compassion towards others?
• Tweet if You Heart Jesus, p.xiv

34. ‘Make disciples of all nations’
• Do you feel comfortable in the online spaces?
• Which particular spaces do you feel you can
work in?
– Platform?
– Subject area?
• Do you feel you can support those who are in
the online spaces?

35. Image Credit: iStockPhoto
@drbexl @digitalfprint @bigbible

36. End on a Prayer
Father, Creator God,You sent your Word, Jesus Christ, to reveal your love and
compassion to the world; you have called us to be his disciples, true images of your
beloved Son,proclaiming his Gospel to all creation.His story is now our story.Keep us
faithful to what we have received, and generous in our sharing.Holy Father, we thank
you also for the gift of the Holy Spiritwhom you sent to sanctify and bless all you have
createdand be the bond of love that unites all of us with you and your Son.Send forth
your Spirit upon us now.Purify our hearts and make us attentive to your promptings
that we may be true missionaries in the digital world.Grant us the humility to seek
you above and before all other thingsthat all we say and do may be done in your
name and for your glory.We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen
http://www.ibenedictines.org/2012/10
/21/a-prayer-for-the-christian-new-
media-conference-cnmac12/

37. Thank you for your time &
participation…