A Call to Cut the Cords of Digital Bondage and Reclaim Our Eyes, Minds, and Homes for the Kingdom of God

> “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.”

— Psalm 101:3

The modern household is haunted. Not by ghosts, but by glowing screens. Not by howling winds, but by silent scrolls. Not by curses shouted aloud, but by algorithmic poison whispered into minds, day and night, hour after hour.

Social media has become the greatest stronghold of distraction, comparison, perversion, rebellion, and addiction in our generation. It is not a tool we control, it is a system that shapes us. It does not merely show us the world; it defines for us what we should love, hate, follow, admire, and become.

What television began, social media has perfected: the indoctrination of the household through the flicker of light and the lie of connection.

And yet, far too many households under the name of Christ have welcomed this serpent into the living room, the bedroom, even the dinner table, with no gatekeeping, no oversight, and no sense of the warfare being waged.

I. The Architecture of Digital Dominion

Social media is not neutral.

It is a spiritual architecture, carefully designed by globalist corporations, tech tyrants, and perverted engineers to shape human behavior, manipulate thought, and bind the soul.

The systems behind platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter) are purposefully designed to:

Numb the conscience through endless distraction

These platforms do not operate by God’s law. They are governed by algorithms, soulless, godless, and they are profit-driven. Designed to serve the interests of Satan’s kingdom: confusion, sensuality, rebellion, idolatry, and chaos.

This is not hyperbole. It is reality. Social media is a machine of formation, and it is forming our sons into feminized addicts and our daughters into attention-starved idols.

II. The Feminization of the Platform: Vanity, Envy, and Control

Social media is a woman’s battlefield, and a man’s snare.

From the beginning, it has been disproportionately dominated by female users. Why? Because it caters to the sins that most entangle women:

Vanity: Endless photos, selfies, fashion, filtered beauty, and attention-seeking posts.

Envy: Comparing homes, children, husbands, and lives with every other woman’s highlight reel.

Control: Using social media to voice rebellion, manipulate sympathy, and undermine headship.

Scripture commands women to be “chaste, discreet, keepers at home.” Social media trains them to be loud, immodest, indiscreet, and constantly plugged into a digital world where rebellion is rewarded and submission is mocked.

Women do not need platforms. They need husbands. They do not need followers. They need obedience. They do not need to go “live.” They need to be alive in their homes, with their children, loving their husbands and building their households.

And men, foolish men; empower this disorder when they fail to set boundaries, when they themselves are slaves to the scroll, and when they permit their wives to be discipled more by reels than by Scripture.

III. The Collapse of Attention, Memory, and Wisdom

Social media does not only warp morals, it destroys minds.

A man who spends his days in 10-second clips will never lead a household with vision. A woman who lives in filtered fantasy will never cultivate real glory in her home. Children raised on memes will not build civilizations. They will be ruled by their impulses and appetites.

The average person checks their phone over 200 times per day, and receives over 350 notifications per day. They spend more time consuming digital content than they do sleeping, talking to family, praying, reading Scripture, or working with their hands. They are not “users.” They are slaves.

Their attention is fractured, and memory is shallow. Their speech is reactive, and their thoughts are outsourced. Their conviction becomes dulled, and they cannot walk in the Spirit while their mind is ruled by the feed.

The command is clear:

> “Be still, and know that I am God…”

— Psalm 46:10

But there is no stillness in the social media age. Only noise, scrolling, reacting, emoting, and feeding the flesh.

We are raising a generation of spiritually mute, emotionally unstable, mentally damaged, physically distracted drones, and we call it “connection.”

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IV. The Tyranny of Total Screen Time: Hours Lost, Legacies Forfeited

The average adult spends over seven hours a day in front of a screen. For teenagers and children, it’s even higher. Between phones, tablets, televisions, laptops, and gaming systems, entire days, even entire lives are consumed in digital consumption. And the cost is far more than missed productivity. It is lost dominion.

Seven hours a day is:

49 hours a week, more than a full-time job.

2,548 hours a year, over 100 entire days.

25,000 hours in a decade, the equivalent of almost three full years of non-stop screen time.

What could have been built with that time?

How many verses could have been memorized?

How many meals could have been shared?

How many trades could have been mastered?

How many sons could have been trained?

How many skills could have been cultivated?

How many hours of Scripture, prayer, teaching, and discipling have been squandered?

The sobering truth is this: the average Christian man gives more time to screens than to Scripture, spouse, children, and worship combined.

This is theft. This is idolatry. This is death by distraction.

Screen time is not neutral. Every hour spent staring into light that profits nothing is an hour not spent ruling, growing, building, teaching, or worshiping. Time is the currency of dominion. And the screen is the greatest thief in modern history.

The righteous man must audit his hours. He must ask:

Who owns my attention?

What kingdom is being built with my time?

Will my screen time bear fruit at the judgment seat?

Let every man take account. Let every family confess the truth. And let the hours be redeemed; for the days are evil.

V. The Death of Presence: When Every Moment Is Interrupted by the Scroll

In the age of social media, the human soul has been rewired, no longer able to dwell in the present. The average man or woman cannot sit through a conversation, enjoy a meal, attend a meeting, or even watch a movie without glancing down at the glowing rectangle in their hand incessantly. What began as convenience has become compulsion. What began as a tool has become a tyrant.

This addiction to distraction is not benign. It is the slow erosion of presence, and presence is the soil in which relationships, authority, learning, and worship grow.

Husbands no longer look their wives in the eyes.

Parents no longer engage their children at the table.

Friends sit together, yet are miles apart in spirit.

Christians hear sermons while silently checking scores and scrolling images.

Conversations are peppered with “let me check,” “hold on,” or “look at this.”

We are not ruled by thoughts, but by impulses. Not guided by principle, but by dopamine. The man or woman who cannot endure stillness without a screen has already lost mastery of themselves, and has not an inkling of self control. 

This is not a minor problem,  it is an absolute disqualifier for dominion. If you cannot govern your thumbs, you cannot govern a household. Presence is power. And it is being stolen, second by second, by the digital serpent we willingly invite to every table.

Let it be cast out. Let the phone be silenced. Let the feast of real life resume.

VI. The Illusion of Community, the Death of Real Fellowship

Social media promises community but delivers isolation.

“Friends” are virtual.

“Likes” replace love.

“Comments” replace counsel.

“Followers” replace true discipleship.

But true fellowship happens face-to-face. Around tables. In prayer. Through hardship. In family. In local churches and real relationships that sharpen, challenge, and anchor us.

Social media deceives men into thinking they are part of something, while they drift further from reality. We were not made for digital tribes. We were made for covenant households and local dominion.

VII. The Destruction of Headship and the Open Door to Temptation

Social media gives women a platform outside their husband’s covering. It gives men a portal into the feminine realm without the discipline of covenant. It gives children access to worlds of perversion before they are trained to discern.

It tears down order.

A wife with an Instagram account is being discipled, not by her husband, but by influencers, feminist comedians, and secular therapists.

A husband with no filter on his feed is one click away from mental adultery.

A teenage girl on TikTok is being groomed by rebellion.

A teenage boy on YouTube is being shaped by effeminate influencers and soft pornography.

Social media breaks headship. It opens gates that God commands us to guard.

> “He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.”

— Proverbs 25:28

Most Christian homes are wall-less cities. And the enemy doesn’t even need to knock; he’s already been invited inside the gates.

VIII. The Sin of Female Preaching in the Feed

One of the most grotesque and common forms of rebellion on social media is the normalization of female authority.

Women “preach” on TikTok. They give relationship advice. They exegete Scripture. They rebuke men. They correct doctrine. They make jokes about their husbands. They publicly argue with elders.

This is not harmless content. This is Jezebel 2.0.

> “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

— 1 Timothy 2:12

Social media has given the mic to every woman with a Wi-Fi connection. And far too many Christian men like, share, or follow them. It is time to unplug the pulpits of rebellion and restore the quiet strength of the godly woman.

IX. The Temptress in the Algorithm

Men are visually stimulated. The creators of social media know this. That’s why platforms are flooded with immodesty, innuendo, and seductive imagery, designed to lure the male eye and ensnare the male heart.

A man can be one scroll away from lust, one click away from compromise, and one message away from disaster. You cannot fill your eyes with vanity and expect to walk in victory.

> “I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?”

— Job 31:1

The call is not to “filter your feed.” The call is to flee youthful lusts and cast down the high places.

Every man must ask:

Does my phone lead me into temptation?

Do my social media habits rob me of spiritual focus?

Am I tolerating in private what I would never tolerate in person?

If the answer is yes,  cut it off. Not scroll less. Not unfollow. Not tweak. Cut it off.

X. Social Media and the Feminist Rebellion

Modern feminism would not exist in its current form without social media.

It is the platform that amplified the victim narrative.

It is the echo chamber that fueled the “independent woman.”

It is the tool that taught wives to mock their husbands.

It is the propaganda machine that taught daughters to rebel.

No woman becomes a feminist alone. She must be taught, groomed, and encouraged.

No wife mocks her husband in isolation. She must be liked, validated, and praised for it.

No young girl chooses sensuality by instinct. She must be discipled into it by the digital temple.

And what do we find now?

Wives seeking sympathy from strangers instead of submitting to their husbands.

Mothers abandoning their homes to become lifestyle influencers.

Daughters following TikTok witches and OnlyFans celebrities.

All under the soft glow of a screen, in what was once a Christian home.

XI. Reclaiming the Household from the Digital Dragon

The time has come to drive out the serpent. Social media is not just an app, it is an altar. And it must be torn down!

How?

1. Fathers must reclaim dominion over the digital domain.

The phone is not a personal device. It is a spiritual gate. And the patriarch must govern the gates of his home.

No wife should be on social media without her husband’s direct oversight. No child should be on it at all. And every man must answer to Christ for what he allows through the screen.

2. Cut it off. Literally.

There is no “balanced” approach to systems built by Satan. If it causes you to sin, cut it off. Delete the app. Block the site. Disable the account. Replace the idol with worship, work, and real dominion.

3. Fill the void with true fellowship and purpose.

Social media addiction thrives in a vacuum. So fill your days with ordered labor, godly community, family meals, household worship, Scripture reading, and real productivity.

4. Train children early.

Teach them that screens are tools, not gods. Discipline them to hunger for truth, not trends. Raise them to be builders, not followers. Replace apps with books. Replace videos with projects. Replace content with covenant.

XII. The Digital Reformation

The Great Order is not just about patriarchy. It is about purity. Peace. Purpose. And to walk in that order, we must reject the disordered systems of this age, and that includes social media.

We will not raise daughters for Instagram attention.

We will not raise sons addicted to reels.

We will not let our wives be discipled by influencers.

We will not permit screens to pastor our homes.

We will build altars, not platforms.

We will seek the face of God, not the approval of strangers.

We will labor for generational dominion, not digital fame.

> “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”

— Joshua 24:15

And if you choose Christ, you must choose to put the phone down.

You must choose real life. Real labor. Real worship. You must choose order.

Conclusion: From Feed to Fruitfulness

We were not made to scroll. We were made to build.

We were not made for “likes.” We were made for legacy.

We were not made for digital dependence. We were made for dominion.

Let every Christian household rise up and cast out the idol of the age.

Let every husband guard the gates.

Let every wife delight in quietness.

Let every child be trained in truth.

Let the people of God be free from the feed.

Let the Kingdom of God be built not on bandwidth, but on the Word.

Let the Great Order rise; unplugged, unpolluted, and undivided.

Soli Deo Gloria.