Piper: Don't Tweet During Sex... or Worship
[How did I miss this one by John Piper until now? Thanks @BarryBowen for alerting us to this one...]"Josh Harris has done us a good service. He explains why many of us think it’s a bad idea to “tweet” while participating in corporate worship. That is, we think you should use Twitter before and after corporate worship to say what you take in and take out. But when you are in corporate worship, Worship! There is a difference between communion with God and commenting on communion with God.
Don’t tweet while having sex. Don’t tweet while praying with the dying. Don’t tweet when your wife is telling you about the kids. There’s a season for everything. Multitasking only makes sense when none of the tasks requires heart-engaged, loving attention.
There is an assumption that Josh and I share, which is not understood or embraced by all..."
[continued at DesiringGod.org]
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