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You might be reading that title and thinking that Matt or Sonlife/Youthfront has solved a youth ministry question that has plagued us for years.

No, we haven’t solved the issue of why our high schoolers are leaving the ‘organized’ church in groves.  We haven’t even solved the issue of how to have an effective Wednesday night youth group.

Today, as I boarded Southwest Airlines out of Seattle, I scanned through the “Spirit” magazine as I waited for that magical ding that would allow me to get back to work on my Apple MacBook.  Airplanes give me a great chance to clean my Blackberry and my email box from those messages that just keep popping into it.

There was an article that said the average white-collar worker received 140 emails or text messages or instant messages in a day.  (I guess I must still be in the blue collar category).

It went on to say that there was a study done that said it takes 4 seconds to press delete per email that you want to delete.  On a typical day, it says that you would waste about 4 – 10 minutes deleting and going through your over-zealous spam filter.

So, it leaves me with a dilemma…Do I just ignore all those spam messages?  Do I just let the old “inbox” pile up or maybe the real question is how much time do I waste playing those “orbitz” games in a week?

I am looking forward to the next survey telling me how much time I waste trying to understand how my Blackberry works…