Twittering your mission

One of the ongoing, though low-profile, debates that we have been having here at The Voice of the Martyrs is about the value of Twitter in our pursuit of fulfilling our mission of glorifying God by serving His Persecuted Church.  Some of us (like me) are open to using it; others have yet to be convinced.  John Piper recently wrote on his ministry’s approach to this social network phenomenon.

I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others.

One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul’s capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. So boycott them and write books (not blogs) about the problem.

The other response says: Yes, there is truth in all of that, but instead of boycotting, try to fill these media with as much provocative, reasonable, Bible-saturated, prayerful, relational, Christ-exalting, truth-driven, serious, creative pointers to true greatness as you can.

Together with the team at Desiring God, I lean toward response #2.[click here to read the rest]

Let me know what you think. And if you are a Twitter user, why not start following us?