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Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience
In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."
Mars Hill has been known for its controversy and new ways of doing things. Mark Driscoll (the pastor) has alienated a lot of mainstream conservative pastors out there. It's not surprising that he encourages his congregation to use new trends to expand his influence. He is drawing in a lot of younger audiences than most more established churches. We will see how long that lasts and if it some day implodes on itself like most of these trendy ministries kinda do.
Oh, two Sundays. That makes more sense. In true Twitter fashion, my post was hastily constructed and poorly considered.
Since I don't believe in any god and it's particularly sad to see churches trying to spread misinformation more effectively, I'd like to approach this topic constructively and point towards and interesting lecture I've seen lately that explains how and why religion evolved.
Since I believe in God and it's particularly sad to see secular humanists trying to spread misinformation more effectively, I'd like to approach this topic constructively and point towards actual people who will have a conversation with you in person about what they believe and why.
its neither news for nerds or stuff that matters...
Apparently you didn't notice the "idle" tag...