Monday, October 11, 2010
Would Jesus facebook/twitter?
I've been considering the silly question, "Would Jesus  facebook/twitter?"  I don't think facebook and twitter are evil in and  of themselves; I believe them to be tools that are more often than not  our master rather than the other way around.  God could have sent Christ  as savior during any time period.  He could have chosen any medium He  wished for sharing His message to us, but He chose the written and  living Word.  He chose a time where there wasn't mass communication  and/or social networking via electronics.  He chose face to face  discipleship with just a handful of simple men.  Face it; Jesus didn't  have a lot of friends by facebook/twitter standards.  But I'm deviating  from my original question...if Jesus had chosen this present time  period, would He facebook/twitter?  I honestly believe Christ would've  been too busy doing what He was supposed to be doing with real people to  be twittering His time away.  Sometimes, at the end of the day, I  regret not having picked up the phone or gone to visit someone who  needed a "real" friend, or I think about ways I could have spent my time  ministering to the poor rather twittering, frittering, and  farmvilling.  It's a time eater and a life waster.  Yes, I'm thinking  about deleting my accounts again.  Yes, I know it will be more difficult  to keep up with some people, but perhaps it's time to "bloom where  we've been planted" and tend to the people in our real day to day lives.    Perhaps, we are neglecting the people God puts right in our path in  the real world because we're too busy and lost in the surreal.  I'll sit  on it a spell, but not for long.
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