“If God is the center of your life, technology is a great gift. If technology is your savior, you’re lost.
The Gospel of Technology promises to simplify our lives and give us more free time, stronger relationships, added security, and better societies.
Too often, what are we left with? More complex lives, less free time, increased loneliness, added insecurities, and amplified social inequality.
Humans are makers and worshipers, and too often what we craft with our hands becomes what we worship with our hearts. (Isa. 44:9–20)
Man has always been quick to bow before the idol of technology, and he always finds himself unsatisfied. Christ knew this.
As the Creator of all human possibilities, he was not scientifically naïve. He authored all science!
He ‘knew all the secrets of nature, the usefulness of human arts to the comfort of the world, but never recommended any of them as sufficient to happiness.’ (Stephen Charnock, Works, 4: 68)
Christ created all human potential, and yet when He came to earth, He basically ignored the whole realm of technological advance in order to teach us where to find true happiness.
Jesus Christ didn’t arrive as a scientist, astronomer, or inventor.
He didn’t incarnate to wow us with new gadgets.
He didn’t come to establish science; He came to be worshiped by scientists.
He came to give us a greater gift.
He came to give us Himself.
He came as our Savior.”
—Tony Reinke, God, Technology, and the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022), 179-180.
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