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Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 3 April 2013

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

How should believers use social media? In a world that loves broadcasting selfies and counting retweets, we must find better ways to tweet.

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0:00.0

Pastor John, in 2019, wrote an article titled Why and How I am Tweeting.

0:11.1

Four years later, speak to us about your Twitter philosophy and your activities.

0:15.2

What are you aiming to accomplish on Twitter?

0:17.3

How do you use the medium?

0:19.3

Yeah.

0:20.3

I have been thinking about uses of Twitter, largely because I use it and I don't want

0:29.4

to use it in a way that dishonors the Lord.

0:33.4

So I'm just random for a minute here about what I've been thinking.

0:40.3

I think everybody who's got a Twitter name and uses it should think and pray through

0:49.7

why.

0:50.7

They use it.

0:53.0

God is a planning God, He's a purposeful God and He calls us to do things purposefully.

0:59.4

Whatever you do with you, eat or drink, do all to the glory of God.

1:04.8

So we're supposed to have a God-centered purpose in all that we do, whether we're playing

1:10.9

softball like some of you get to do, whether we're writing a tweet or whether we're preaching

1:16.0

the sermon or a change in the doctor or making a meal, the Bible really gets down dirty

1:21.8

through the specifics of our lives and just think it through.

1:25.2

Why are you doing this and then let the why govern the how, Ephesians 4, 29, no corrupting

1:33.4

talk come out of your mouth but only such as it's good for up building.

1:39.3

So is my tweet going to build?

1:42.4

Is it going to fit the occasion?

1:44.1

Is it going to minister grace to those who hear?

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