Saddington’s Heroes at 8bit have done it. Someone with a voice in the modern Christian community finally stepped up to the line. Finally, someone with some pull has called out the pink elephant standing in the room for years.

Don't be a Social Media Troll.

Finally, someone has called BS on the Church using Spiritual Social Media, defaming the name of Jesus in the name of being hip, or by creating “Christian-safe alternatives”. Read it here.

Social Media is all about connecting to each other, not a pseudo-identity behind a corporate (or nonprofit) name. There is something inherently wrong about jumping on board with a concept just because it is the newest fad. When a company or nonprofit (or worse yet, church) uses their Social Media presence to simply market themselves in a new way instead of as connecting point, it’s BS. If you take the social part out of Social Media, it’s simply media.

Here’s a great example of Social Media like it should be. A couple weeks ago,

Not too long ago, someone posited me with a question: “What is an online/digital church all about?” What a great question! Out of the conversation that followed, I developed what I now call The Digital-Church Manifesto, my personal collection of convictions about what the Church should look like online.

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Before you go any further, you need to understand something about my personal theology about the Internet. The Internet is not a “parallel universe” in which some people live a life that does not intersect with the “physical universe.” In other words, your life online is not separate from your life offline. For more on this, you should read this and this conversation from earlier.

The Niche of the Digital Church

What I see as being the killer app for the Digital Church is the fact it can be used by God in many ways that physical churches and ministries cannot. Of course, the opposite