Technology and the Christian Life (April 2026 Sermon Series)

Technology and the Christian Life April 2026 Sermon Series

What is technology good for? For the Christian, especially Presbyterians, the answer cannot be everything, but it also cannot be nothing. Yet when the question comes up about the use of social media or AI and the like, we tend to hear only extremes.  Embrace it all with the Tech Bros or repudiate it entirely with the Luddites. The Presbyterian middle, it seems, is too hard or too ambiguously murky.

This April, we invite you to find the middle ground.  Drawing on Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, this series explores three areas of life where a Christian approach to technology may differ from that of our world and our neighbors.  What does it mean to follow Jesus, a first century Rabbi, in the 21st century?  How do we follow Jesus in our use of technology in this digital age?

April 12 | Second Sunday of Easter Green Light: Preservation Genesis 8:15–9:7 · Psalm 144:9–15

From Noah's Ark to the modern hospital, God has provided technology as a gift to preserve human life.  When technology adds to beauty, goodness, and truth, the Christian sees a green light.  Presbyterians start with “go,” when technology serves as an instrument to extend human care.

April 19 | Third Sunday of Easter
Yellow Light: Production
Genesis 3:14–24 · Exodus 5:6–18

When Adam was called to work the ground, technology entered the story of labor.  Productive tools can be a genuine gift.  But what happens when Pharaoh demands more bricks with less straw?  Presbyterians are cautious about technology that has the power to enslave.  What does faithful stewardship of productive technology look like?

April 26 | Fourth Sunday of Easter
Red Light: Formation
Ephesians 4:11–16 · Galatians 3:27–4:20

At home and in church, our primary purpose is not to produce things.  Here is where people are formed, and “reformed” in the image of God in Christ.  Spiritual formation, which requires slowness and presence, will require a much stronger resistance to technology than we have sometimes been willing to offer.  When the technium (the soulless machine) invades the home and church (and sometimes also the school), it tends to make disciples after its own kind. The church must be different.

Join us as we ask these challenging questions together: how and where and for what purpose should Presbyterian Christians use technology?