What would it look like if the whole world was on Twitter and everyone has Twitter tag for what God is doing?
Maybe #YHWH? #INRI? #AO?
I was thinking today about the fact that God’s word to us is Good News.
God is good.
And what he is doing is news.
And news is always new
Since I left the news industry to follow my call into ministry a couple months ago, I’ve marveled at the fact that I haven’t cared to actively seek out professional news of the TV, radio, newspaper or web variety.
My reasoning is: If it’s important enough, someone will tell me about it.
One of the ways I’ve kept up is through Twitscoop, a real-time tag cloud/memetracker of what people are talking about now.
The gospel writers offered the world a “#God #Jesus #miracle” tag cloud of witness of past and present and future that changed history forever.
With all the social media tools we have, what’s stopping the whole of the Christian world, billions of us, from sowing a Christ meme like that today?
In first century BC, people lived so connectedly in their villages, that news — such as the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus — spread like wildfire. And hundreds, perhaps thousands, were saved.
Everyone knew her. So her story hit critical mass.
But for that news to break out of her network, for that news to change the world, someone has to connect those miracle encounters to what is happening in every village, in every city, everywhere at the same time.
I wonder how many folks don’t believe Christianity is true because they don’t hear enough about what God has done.
Not “how you can be saved.” That comes after.
But what God has actually done in the lives of people. Now.
What say you?
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