{"id":1598,"date":"2012-01-13T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T03:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2012-04-19T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:22:26","slug":"3_questions_to_help_advance_rick-warrens_bold_twitter_vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/13\/3_questions_to_help_advance_rick-warrens_bold_twitter_vision\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Questions to Help Advance Rick Warren\u2019s Bold Twitter Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Warren recently shared a vision that has tremendous implications for the local church. With half a million of his own Twitter followers, Warren stated<\/a>, \u201cI want pastors to dominate Twitter. We don’t want celebrities dominating these things; we want pastors using this for the Good News.\u201d<\/p>\n

But amidst the thrill of this vision, a note of caution must be sounded. There is a course correction some of us may need to make in order to see Warren\u2019s thrilling vision become reality.<\/p>\n

When we tweet, we need to be sure we\u2019re not perceived as \u201cposturing\u201d when we intend to be \u201cproclaiming\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Posturing\"I\u2019m as guilty as anyone in this regard.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the intent, but with 140 characters or less, if we\u2019re not careful, our tweets can be misconstrued as posturing.<\/p>\n

And ultimately this could diminish our social media impact.<\/p>\n

But I believe we can avoid the appearance of posturing if we ask 3 questions when we tweet;<\/p>\n

Question #1: Could the \u201cheart\u201d of this tweet be misunderstood?<\/strong><\/p>\n

An example would be when we state something like, \u201cSo grateful for the 5,000 new people who showed up at our church last weekend,\u201d or \u201cHumbled to be able to baptize 12,000 people in a single service,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n

Even though we may not be intending to grandstand it could be perceived that way. We need to be careful.<\/p>\n

Question #2: Does this tweet tell the whole story? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter is not the place to air our church\u2019s dirty laundry. But sometimes it can appear that nothing ever goes wrong in ministry.<\/p>\n

Perhaps for every tweet that begins, \u201cPumped for…\u201d, \u201cStoked by…\u201d or \u201cExcited to…\u201d we need the occasional tweet that begins, \u201cConcerned about…\u201d<\/p>\n

Question #3: Am I tweeting about God\u2019s activity beyond my ministry?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s only natural that the front row seat God has granted each one of us will be reflected in our Twitter feed. But without intending to, we can be leaving the impression that we\u2019re not aware of, or enthused about, God\u2019s activity beyond the scope of our own church.<\/p>\n

We might get more long-term mileage out of Twitter when we leverage it to tell a broader Kingdom story.<\/p>\n

Bottom line? Let\u2019s always be mindful of the limitations of 140 characters, and strive to ensure that our message reflects our intentions.<\/p>\n

Because when it comes to Kingdom advancement via social media the potential is huge! So with wisdom, discernment and boldness, let\u2019s go for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Warren recently shared a vision that has tremendous implications for the local church. With half a million of his own Twitter followers, Warren stated, \u201cI want pastors to dominate Twitter. We don’t want celebrities dominating these things; we want pastors using this for the Good News.\u201d But amidst the thrill of this vision, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,772],"tags":[775,774,773,103],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-social-media","tag-intent","tag-perception","tag-rick-warren","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}