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Egan Rains

A presentation · A biblical call to watchfulness and wisdom

Shepherding Children in a Digital Babylon

How do parents and churches protect children from online threats?

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“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22:6

We train because they are a gift.

“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith…”

1 Peter 5:8–9

We watch because there is an enemy.

The mission

Children are a heritage. There is an adversary. The digital world is a battlefield. Watchfulness looks like conversation, boundaries, tools, a ready church, and hope that has a name — Jesus Christ.

Babylon in Scripture is a real city with real idols, real power, and real pressure on the people of God. The work is not to burn the city down. The work is to refuse to let the city name our children.

The path of the hour

Seven movements. Christ at the close.

Diagnosis before tools. Spiritual reality before software.

  1. 01

    The spiritual battle

    This is not merely a technology problem.

  2. 02

    The digital world

    Where our children actually live and play.

  3. 03

    How harm unfolds

    Patterns parents can recognize — not a playbook.

  4. 04

    Where it finds a door

    Games, chats, and the move into private rooms.

  5. 05

    How parents protect

    Conversation, boundaries, tools that get used.

  6. 06

    How churches protect

    Families were never meant to carry this alone.

  7. 07

    Hope in Christ

    Vigilance is necessary. It is not the gospel.

What a room leaves with

Agency, not a mood.

  • A shared language: shepherd, not technician.

  • A few household moves that actually hold — conversation first, then fences.

  • A church that does not leave families to invent a theology of the internet by themselves.

  • Hope with a name. Jesus Christ. We do not end on fear.

Who this is for

Ask Egan to speak.

I do not speak as a parent. I work with youth at church, and I have studied the threats. I speak as a co-laborer in the church’s watch — not as an expert scolding the room. Sober, not sensational. Watchful, not panicked. Pastoral, not technical. Alarm without hope freezes people. Hope without clarity leaves them unprepared.

  • Churches and parent nights
  • Christian schools and homeschool gatherings
  • Elder boards and ministry staff who need a path, not a scare

Some of you will have lived parts of this, or love someone who has. You do not have to sit as if it were only a lecture. Sit where you need. Step out if you need. Afterward I am here, if you want to talk.

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The evening

The presentation is about forty minutes.

Then questions. I stay after — for the thing you did not want to ask in front of the room.