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The Rise of the Twittering Church-Goers

Started by jessestay · 11 months ago

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I knew Twitter had hit mainstream when I was Twittering about speaking in Church awhile back, and the CIO of a major Church organization Twitter’d me back, wishing me luck, while he himself was in church. Both he and I some times ... Continue reading »

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  • klecu

    11 months ago

    You already have my previous comment on there, but let me add, I justify checking email (even friendfeed sometimes) because I go to two identical services each week (working sound/video and occasionally playing guitar or singing). But I do have to check myself because it's not very reverent. I also heard - from my pastor, no less - that Mars Hill church in Seattle area has an internal site where laptop and cell phone users can see additional information related to the message. He seemed to like the idea. May have to make a social network app for churches some day for all the other gen-Y'ers. If we're gonna be distracted, might as well be distracted by something relevant to the teaching.
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  • Jon Kepler

    11 months ago

    Wow, great post! Thanks for covering this. I still remember when I was in elementary school (probably grade 8), I brought an electronic Bible to church instead of a hard copy, and an elder in the church asked me to leave my toy at home. My explanation of what it was went completely over his head.
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  • jessestay

    11 months ago

    Jon, you must be young! I didn't even own a computer at that age! ;-)
    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Jon Kepler

    11 months ago

    It may have been earlier than 8th grade, but it couldn't have been too many years before that. I'm in my early 20s now, but that's still young, isn't it? It looked a lot like this:

    http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/2705000...
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  • jessestay

    11 months ago

    That's awesome! You were way ahead of your time, that's for sure.
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  • Shayne Packer

    11 months ago

    When the Mac PowerBook first came out 15 years ago or so, I'd use it to look up scriptures in Sunday School. I had used the Folio Views app. I was amazed that I could look up a scripture faster than anyone else in the class :-) Now days I use ScripturesApp.com on my iPhone. Even my friends with Blackberries like it. I was happy to get an email from Chuck Phillips saying he is developing it into an iPhone app! Seriously though, I think it's important to be reverent and agree with you that you should focus on the spiitual experience while at church. And don't distract others.
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