Is Modern Life Getting Too Easy?

Can too Much “Ease” be Hazardous to Your Health and Your Witness?

I came across an interesting article in Christianity Today Women Section titled Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice. Focus on the last sentence – Ease is the new Vice. That’s what caught my eye.

The author, Jen Michel Pollock, makes the case that teens are having less sex and starting later and are showing signs of tiredness with even less troublesome forms of exertion.

Another study showed a decline in the consumption of breakfast cereal by teens who called eating cereal unattractive because they had to clean up bowl and spoon. It didn’t say what they did eat for breakfast, but whatever it was, it apparently had to be very convenient.

The author worried that the ever easing of our physical exertion requirements thanks to technology would carry over into the spiritual component of Christian lives – that loving our neighbor might seem too hard.

My Self Assessment

I don’t know if it’s my advancing age or the evolving culture of Ease but I confess that it does seem harder to make a physical effort to interact with my sphere of friends and neighbors. Texting and email are so convenient. Have you noticed anything like that?

Take a look at the article in Christianity Today for a fuller and well written development of the point and its possible harm to a person’s general health and God’s ability to use us for person to person ministry.

It is worth 5 minutes or less of your time (and it is very easy to do).

Check it out here:

Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice.

Come back and leave a Comment – once again – it’s easy! I did it!

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Is Modern Life Getting Too Easy?

Thanks. I appreciate it. – Dick S