Tweet the Good Word. #Amen

I'll admit I haven't really caught on to Twitter.  I have an account and I follow a number of others, much in the same way I follow blogs.  I do like the as-it-happens bulletins from the local news.

My hashtag would be #unconvinced.

Tweeting live events has become quite fashionable; most conferences I have attended in the past two years have encouraged tweeting.  Religious tweeting is certainly popular from the Pope, the Dalai Lama, or even TD Jakes.  Now the debate about sermon tweeting continues: Thou shall/shalt not tweet.

ChurchMag recently blogged a "sermon tweeting how-to" based on their experiences that I thought was worth sharing.  Check out the links at the bottom of the post to other viewpoints. 

Their post argued the need to think through your reasons for tweeting the sermon, and being intentional about what you are doing.  This makes sense but it also seems to fly in the face of the culture of tweeting as "stream of consciousness" and "point-in-time."  Also is it my experience of the sermon I'm sharing? I think this question is important as frankly most religious tweeting seems somewhat impersonal; scripture or sound-bites tossed into cyberspace.  Who is the listener behind the tweet?  What did the sermon do to you?

I was thinking about the sermon I heard today on Jonah chapter 2.  So which sermon tweet would catch your attention?

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