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Presence in an Automated Age – The Formed Future · Still, Here

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is still here, a quiet moment to remember what is true.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Listen to these words from the book of John, chapter 1, verse 14.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: The Word became flesh and lived among us.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: We saw His glory, such glory as of the onlyborn Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Efficiency has its place.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Good systems can relieve burdens.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: Careful tools can save time.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: AI can draft, sort, summarize, and assist.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Automation can help people carry work that has grown too heavy.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: The danger begins when efficiency becomes our highest good.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: We begin asking how fast a task can be completed and Before we ask how faithfully
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: a person can be loved,
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: we measure output while the person in front of us needs presence.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: John tells us that the Word became flesh and lived among us.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: God did His saving work through embodied presence.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: The Eternal Son entered time, skin, hunger, fatigue, friendship, grief.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Touch, Conversation, and Tears.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Grace came near enough to be seen.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: That matters deeply in an automated age.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: We can receive remarkable tools with wisdom and use them in love.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yet the Christian witness remains profoundly human because Christ came to us in the flesh.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone who has sat beside a bed,
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: listened to a grieving friend,
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: held silence with a frightened person,
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: or stayed in a hard conversation knows this truth.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: Presence carries a grace that efficiency cannot imitate.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: A faster answer may help.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: A faithful presence can heal.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: The age may tell us that every human exchange should be optimized.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Love asks a different question.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Who needs me to be here with them?
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: Presence may look inefficient.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: It may slow down the pace.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: It may interrupt production.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: It may require eye contact, patience, silence, and attention.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yet presence is one way Christ keeps the future human through us.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Today, before one task you are rushing to finish, notice the person connected to it.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Let love slow you long enough to see them.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: The Word became flesh.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let your love have flesh too.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Take a moment for this prayer of presence.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Lord Jesus, you became flesh and lived among us.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: Teach me to value presence in a world of speed.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Help me use tools wisely while keeping love human, attentive, and near.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Call me back to the person in front of me.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Let my presence carry your grace.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: As the day continues around you, carry this prayer with you.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Christ dwells in me.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let my presence carry grace.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Christ dwells in me.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Let my presence carry grace.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: Christ dwells in me.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: Let my presence carry grace.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, stay steady, stay open, stay present.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: You are still here.