Aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Social media can often become an exercise in attempting to be famous in the eyes of people who do not know you. It is the antithesis of the sentiment expressed in the above admonition from St. Paul to the church at Thessalonica.
Christians must insist on living quietly, seeking honor and fame among those who actually know us -- those who share our last name and address, first and foremost. Then extending to those who happen to own property in the proximity of ours. Next those who employ us or those with whom we find ourselves employed shoulder to shoulder. Then to those for whom our employment provides a good or service.
In these areas, we are to be famous for minding our own business and minding it very well. If we are famous for this among people who know us, we are living a high ideal in lowly affairs, the Christian life in every aspect.
Do not seek to be famous by living loudly in order to earn fame at a distance from people who do not know you when such an opportunity exists to live quietly among the ones right next to you.
Do not seek to be famous by living loudly in order to earn fame at a distance from people who do not know you when such an opportunity exists to live quietly among the ones right next to you.
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