3 things Christians must refrain from posting about on Facebook

What you post on the internet is forever engraved there.

Christians are becoming more and more active in the use of technology, as well as within participation on social media. While it is obvious that the trend of social networking has its scary downsides, it is also serving as one of the most popular platform to share God's love and His wisdom to everyone we are connected with. The power of sharing has helped reach our non-Christian friends online.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - However, there are some instances where we are abusing this sharing capability. Although intentions are far from harmful and are not meant to push others away from believing, Christians are posting some thoughts that are usually not good in timing.

If not, there are posts we ought to keep to ourselves once realizing it may be misunderstood.

According to Crosswalk.com, the following types of posts are those that do more harm than good, unintentionally.

1. Posts about the "heretic" pastor

Yes, misconceptions and wrong statements and interpretations must be called upon. However, doing this indirectly at the person concerned, in this case the pastor, can cause more misinterpretations about the Church and the relationships among its members.

More or less, our friends that do not actually know about the situation at hand might dismiss it as a moment where a Christian attacks his/her fellow.

Trying to call attention for wrong teachings must be done on a personal level to avoid further damage.

2. Someone else's tragedy to pray for - before others knew about it

It's not wrong to ask for prayers for a fellow Christian who suffers from loss or another tragedy, but be sure the timing won't cause shock among others.

Failing to take in account other close family members, relatives and friends who may not know of the situation yet will cause more emotional damage than comfort. Before posting about another person's struggles, asking for encouragement and prayers, please be conscious about the feelings of those without knowledge yet of what is happening.

3. Super specific prayer requests -- like for someone's rash

Many of our friends don't have to know every single detail of the troubles we are asking prayers for. Some of these prayer requests are so personal they may cause embarrassment, which will forever live in the space of the Internet.

It could also cause more harm to the person we wanted to pray for. It is much better if we ask people to gather personally to pray together, but still be careful on word choice.

Hopefully, we are all conscious on how we share our thoughts with the cyber society. Intentions are often good, but they won't be enough if the statuses do more bad than good.

God should be glorified at all times, and how we interact with others on social media is not exempted. Words are powerful and most of the times unforgettable.

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