Pastors are increasingly encouraged to use social media, and it certainly can be a positive extension of your ministry. However, as with preaching, you have to be cautious about saying the first thing that comes into your head, at least I hope you are cautious about that when preaching!<\/p>\n
Whether you are writing a blog, crafting Facebook posts, jotting those 140 character tweets for Twitter or sending emails, these questions from Kevin DeYoung are good to ask yourself before hitting Send:
• Is this idea, question or rant only half-baked?
• Have I considered that anyone anywhere at any time could see this?
• Do I really know what I’m talking about?
• What if I run into this person later today?
• Will I feel good about this post later?
• Have I sought the counsel of others?
• Do I have this person’s phone number?
• What is my motivation?
• Have I tried to love my neighbor as I love myself?
• Have I lost all sense of proportion?<\/p>\n
Click here to read Kevin’s discussion of each of these useful questions.<\/p>\n
Pastors are increasingly encouraged to use social media, and it certainly can be a positive extension of your ministry. However, as with preaching, you have to be cautious about saying the first thing that comes into your head, at least I hope you are cautious about that when preaching! Whether you are writing a blog, … Continue reading “Be Careful What You Tweet!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}