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Don’t believe everything you hear (or see)

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New Testament Christians, of all people, should know how to be wary of things that they hear. In religious settings, we long to be like the Bereans, who sought to verify what they heard before acting upon it (Acts 17:11). We should take that same mindset to everything else in our lives.

When we hear something on the news, do we just believe the information without any kind of examination? When we see a post on social media that we like, do we just share it without checking to see if it is accurate? When we see a photo on social media with a caption, do we investigate to see if the caption is truthfully depicting what was happening in the photo? When we see a video online, do we assume that we are seeing the entire video (unedited) and that we have the fullness of the context of what happened before and what happened after?

As New Testament Christians, we have had our minds trained to search for truth, verify what we’re told, and even examine for proper context. We must do that with the Bible! What if we did that with everything else in life?