What does it mean to seek God's space?

The drama surrounding social media sites has reached calamitous proportions. Facebook and Twitter have been implicated in civil unrest. 4chan has never been a safe place, and Reddit can give you adorable head cannon about Care Bears one minute and detailed speculation about the aliens under Denver's airport and the things they do to gerbils the next.

One of the first successful social media platforms was Myspace. I had a Myspace account. All I remember about it is there was a lot of music and I learned things about my cousin I'm pretty sure my aunt and uncle didn't know. At that time, I was firmly entrenched in LiveJournal, so I didn't stick around.

Both Myspace and LiveJournal avoided the controversy that plagues the other social media platforms. The racist, sexist content found on 4chan and the crazed conspiracy theories spread on Facebook and Twitter have brought citizens, politicians, and tech giants together in harmony to calmly and rationally discuss the role each sector of society has in ensuring only accurate, kind, and useful information is shared by people who actually know what they're talking about.

Just kidding. It's an all-out brawl.

On the one side, some think site owners should be responsible for ensuring user-posted content is accurate—or at least not filled with blatant lies designed to incite people to don face paint and hats with horns and storm the Capitol. On the other side, some think site owners owe them a platform to share any information, from the belief that abortion kills babies to Etsy sites where they can find hats with horns. Congressional hearings and banned users haven't cleared the air.

They have, however, sent Christians scrambling for alternative social media platforms. Places where people only post what is good and true and can do so without censorship. In short, they're looking for God's Space. They thought they'd found it in Parler, but then learned that Amazon, who owns the servers Parler ran on, actually had domain over their servers and who used their servers, and sent Parler packing. Temporarily. Word is it's back up on a Russian server.

The truth is, God already designed a social site where Christians can get together, encourage each other, worship God, and get feedback on the truth of common—or not so common—beliefs. It's a place where believers can connect while they seek God's face. You should try it out.

It's called church.

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