{"id":337,"date":"2009-06-10T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2011-03-10T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T02:55:05","slug":"tweeting-for-the-glory-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/tweeting-for-the-glory-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be an Offering: Tweeting for the Glory of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us are using Twitter regularly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way to keep in touch with people and see what&#8217;s going on in current events.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also a great way to waste time.<\/p>\n<p>Have you thought about the fact that everything you do is a reflection of the God that created you, the One you worship, and the One you say you follow?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"verse Col_3_17\">And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.&#8221; Colossians 3:17<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that includes tweeting and updating your Facebook profile.<\/p>\n<p>John Piper has just <a title=\"Desiring God | Why and How I am Tweeting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/TasteAndSee\/ByDate\/2009\/3951_Why_and_How_I_Am_Tweeting\/\">posted some great thoughts about this<\/a>.\u00a0 Think about his words as you think about how to be an offering while you use Twitter and your Facebook status update as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/tweeting-for-the-glory-of-god\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you use Twitter?  Is it just another place where you can let your friends know what you&#8217;re doing at any given moment?  Or is it somewhere you can reflect God&#8217;s glory and point others to Him?  I was encouraged to read John Piper&#8217;s thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offerings","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}