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Twitteresque

If you’ve followed this blog for long, you are probably aware that my attitude toward social media is, at best, ambivalent. I use both Facebook and Twitter, but mostly as feeds to this site. I have no intention of changing that. However, I’ve written down some bite-sized thoughts over the last week or so, each of them under the 140-character Twitter limit, and proffer them here.

You may ask, “Why not just Tweet them? Isn’t this just a sneaky way of tweeting while maintaining your aloof elitism?” Yes . . . er, no. Maybe. But seriously, I don’t think the Twitter format can support ideas of any size or importance. Standing alone, these are bare, unsupported assertions, provocations for conversations that can never take place without a great deal of space and time. Each of them require, at least, a few hundred words of explanation to become valid ideas. Here, at least, I can admit that. To do so on Twitter would use up my character limit (and my character is very limited).

So, here you go: some things I’ve thought. You should think them too, but only after you’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about them.

Anyone can plant a church in the city or suburb. Come out to rural America, you “missional” types. I dare you.
God has not called me to be radical. He’s called me to be faithful.
If you have highly marketable talents and work hard, you might reap great rewards, bringing upon yourself the disdain of the holier class.
Inner-city ministry to lower classes is not new. But genuine gospel ministries aimed at wealthy executives … ever seen one? Me neither.
There is no virtue in poverty. Asceticism is just another vanity.
Anything worth publishing is worth putting in hardcover. Anything worth passing on is worth sewn bindings in cloth or leather.
Fantasy Church: I want to worship with Presbyterians on Sunday morning and study with Particular Baptists on Wednesday night.
God’s Will, Part 1. Two wills of God: Revealed, and Undiscovered.
God’s Will, Part 2. His revealed will is found in Scripture alone; learn it and obey it.
God’s Will, Part 3. Love the Lord, love your neighbor, then do what you want.
God’s Will, Part 4. His Undiscovered Will is now discovered, but only in hindsight.
Hollywood writers are notoriously bad theologians. [How bad are they?] Almost as bad as typical evangelicals.
I’d rather have a beer with an unbeliever than coffee with a Christian who thinks it’s a sin to have a beer with an unbeliever.
On beer with an unbeliever vs. coffee with a legalist: WWJD?
WWJD is very often the wrong question. Ask, rather, what has Jesus done, and how, then, shall I live?
If you think your spouse is difficult, you’re certainly right. What did you expect?
I’d rather read Tom Clancy than almost anything from a Christian bookstore. Both take the Lord’s name in vain, but Clancy is entertaining.
If I had a boat, I’d go out on the ocean, and if I had a pony, I’d ride him on my boat.
If you were smarter, you’d understand me; if I was smarter, I’d be easier to understand.
Lean hopwards, please.
Pentecostal/charismatic theology in all its shades is dangerous, and inherently non-Protestant.
Roman Catholicism is not Christianity.
Sausage, cheese, and salt & vinegar chips. Especially cheese.
Six twenty-four hour days of creation is not secondary doctrine. It is essential to the gospel.
There is no unique baby in any bathwater anywhere, including mine.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?

These are, as I said, bare, unsupported assertions. Ask me to expand any, and maybe I will sometime.

On another social media-related topic, I’ve joined Google+. If Facebook had functioned like this, I might have actually used it for social connections. So connect with me on Google+, if you like. Now, which circle shall I put you in? I’ll have to consult my Dante . . .

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