The Lord’s servant must mot be quarrelsome

The Lord’s servant must mot be quarrelsome. When a “content Creator’s” content is conflict, he will be needing to create it constantly. But what’s good for clicks is bad for the soul. Let the maturing move on from such things.

@jaredcwilson

I remember when I stopped listening to talk radio.

I used to listen to “a lot” of talk radio. In the car, at work, on the way home, doing house work, whatever - there was usually some conservative talk radio on and I was listening to it. Hours and hours of it, day after day.

I don’t even remember the exact topic but I was listening to Hannity and he was defending some dumb thing that George W. Bush had done. It wasn’t a big thing, but it was the thing of the day and I remember thinking “man, there is nothing he won’t defend here.”

For a second, I saw behind the production. I wasn’t learning, I wasn’t being educated - I was being mildly incited. Not enough to do anything but enough to live with a minor amount of outrage. The talk show hosts job wasn’t to inform or discuss but to keep me listening. The best way to keep me listening was to keep me upset.

I turned it off and never turned it back on. Cold turkey.

I don’t want to present myself here as some paragon of virtue, only consuming the finest of delicate political commentaries. In some cases I’ve replaced outrage talk radio with outrage twitter.

For me it’s a constant battle to determine if what I’m consuming is good commentary or anger-inducing click bait. On Sunday morning my twitter is full of pastors praising God and talking about the awesomeness of worship and I scroll on withholding my likes for that one tweet that’s a little more snarky and mildly quarrelsome.

I think that’s why this tweet stood out to me so much. What’s good for the clicks is bad for the soul.

For me, this speaks to me as a content consumer AND a content creator. 🤔