Evangelism in an age of distraction

Joy Hadden  |  Comment  |  PfE women
Date posted:  31 Aug 2025
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Evangelism in an age of distraction

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Isn’t it an interesting time to be alive?

What do I mean by that? Well, we have AI apps and websites as personal assistants at our fingertips online; medical advancements where premature babies 21 weeks old can survive; and the ability to attend an online business meeting while still in our slippers!

But contemporary life is also "interesting" in the British, somewhat sceptical, sense of the word! I asked ChatGPT, "If you were the Devil, how would you distract people today?" It’s response? Information overload, encouraging pleasure over purpose, undermining meaning, and twisting truth into merely opinion.

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