What is Technology Good For?

by Drake Osborn

What is technology good for?

For the Christian, the answer cannot be everything or nothing. If technology is good for everything, then the pursuit of the good life moves us further and further away from the simplicity of Eden. If technology is good for nothing, then how do we make sense of God’s great use of it, from the detailed engineering of Noah’s Ark to the intricate architecture of the new Jerusalem?

Whenever I talk to church members about the use of technology or it comes up in the pulpit as a point of Scriptural application, there is a tendency to hear only extremes.

This is the most common perception I get in the pews: that to faithfully follow Christ in a technological world you must either embrace and utilize or deny and repudiate. Tech Bro or Luddite; the middle is too murky and ripe for hypocrisy. People want to know where, that is, in what areas of life, they can freely use technology, but often find few nuanced answers. The difficulty of the median position is categorical …