The algorithm isn’t the danger. The heart is. Guard it. Shape it. Submit it to the Word. Let it be examined by Scripture, not by trends. Because in the end…the algorithm is a mirror. And if we don’t like what we see, it’s not the mirror that needs changing. It’s us.

I opened the X app yesterday and didn’t even have to scroll.

Outrage.
Disgust.
Mockery.
Accusations.

The spark happened to be a new song from Skillet. John Cooper is a friend, a brother, and a man I respect. The issue wasn’t the song. The issue wasn’t John. The issue was the reaction.

And the truth is, it could’ve been anything.

Tucker or Candace.
A pastor someone loves or hates.
A theological skirmish with names attached.
Ogden.
Wilson.
Whoever the timeline decided to crucify that day.

It didn’t matter the topic.
It didn’t matter the context.
It didn’t even matter if it was important.

My timeline was full of Christians acting like the sky was falling.

I was sitting at my kitchen table when it hit me. Coffee on one side, Bible open on the other. My feed was convulsing over something that didn’t deserve the reaction it got.

The topics always change.
The temperature never does.

And that should trouble us.
Deeply.

Because long before Silicon Valley knew how to capture attention, Scripture warned us what happens when a people inflame their own passions.
When noise replaces knowledge.
When emotion replaces discernment.
When reaction replaces repentance.

This isn’t a tech problem.
It’s a spiritual one.

We blame “the algorithm.”

It promotes outrage.
It rewards division.
It amplifies the loudest, angriest, most unstable voices.

Maybe that’s partly true.

But almost no one asks the deeper question.
The question the prophets would ask.
The question that exposes the heart:

What if the algorithm isn’t manipulating us?
What if it’s measuring us?

Sit with that.

Because the platform isn’t showing you what you hate.
It’s showing you what you stop for.
What you hover over.
What you replay.
What you “just want to see for yourself.”

Your feed isn’t a battlefield.
It’s a mirror.

Every scroll is a confession.
Every click is a catechism.
Every indulgence—holy or unholy—becomes a liturgy shaping your affections.

And here’s the line some will ignore because it cuts too close:

The algorithm isn’t discipling Christians.
Christians are discipling the algorithm.

Behind all that code is one ancient principle:
Give people more of what they want.

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