The church administration and social media

[Joe Knapp]

Social Medea is not new. Criticism of the church in social media is not new.

But things have changed. With the new algorithms, and small voice may be amplified.  Let's talk YouTube for example. With this recent controversy about Dr. Vine and the Village church, was fueled by YouTube, in my opinion.

When I watched one or two videos on this topic, I did not realize what would happen. Even though my YouTube history is turned off, I see many videos pop up in my feed about this. Even very small channels who have made a video on this show up. I am sure many people like me clicked on these videos out of curiosity, feeding the algorithm even more.

In the future, especially in Michigan, it is going to be difficult for the leadership to operate when any unhappy members can post open criticism of their decisions.

In the past, I have been opposed to MANY decisions made by the Michigan Conference leadership.  But there is a place for such criticism. And it is not YouTube.  This is not a healthy thing to air all the dirty laundry for the WHOLE planet to see.

[Theophilus]

Thanks for saying this!! The Vine Kelly thing is everywhere I look. On Spectrum A today Fulcrum 7 --other things are more or less pushed aside.

Stuff like this is no better that something worldly taking up all of your time. Its almost becoming an obsession. We are supposed to be working on souls, but as you said, airing our dirty laundry does no good, and just makes angry folk angrier.

I posted about this problem on one of the magazines yesterday. I bet I get blasted. Nice to know someone else feels the same.

[phkrause]

On 1/11/2025 at 5:03 AM, Joe Knapp said:

was fueled by YouTube, in my opinion

Really? Are you actually blaming YouTube for this?? Personally I would be blaming the individuals that are responsible not YouTube. Sure they are using YouTube to air there dirty laundry as you say. But it could've been anyone of the different Social platforms, etc. I don't waste my time watching this stuff. I wont say that I'm not tempted to check it out, but every time I'm ready to click on the link that people send me I get a message in my mind that says "NO!"