The Myth of Spiritual Multitasking: Choosing Your Master
The Myth of Spiritual Multitasking: Choosing Your Master We live in a world obsessed with multitasking. We text while walking (and occasionally meet a streetlamp face-to-face), we cook while on Zoom calls (and burn dinner), and we try to watch Netflix while studying (and remember nothing). Science tells us that humans aren’t actually "multitasking"; we are just rapidly task-switching , which reduces our efficiency by up to 40%. But while multitasking might just result in a burned casserole in the kitchen, Jesus warns that trying to "multitask" our devotion is spiritually dangerous. In His teaching on "How Shall I Then Live," He makes a shocking, either/or statement: "No one can serve two masters. Either they will hate the one and love the other, or they will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." (Matthew 6:24) The Heart is the Headwaters Everything in the Christian life starts in the ...