At church last night I tweeted from the service for the very first time. I’m not sure if I’ll do it again.
On the one hand, it is a really good way of sharing a key point (and it got re-tweeted a few times, so I’m thinking others tweeps thought it worthwhile too).
On the other hand, it’s hard to make sure I only tweet the point and don’t get caught up in a cool twittersation. That’s me lacking discipline though, so I should probably stick with it and just learn the art of anti-distraction 
So, the thing I tweeted that my Pastor said in last night’s service, now presented in more than 140 characters, was:
God is the source of our supply. People (or the world) are channels. If a channel closes, you need to remember that the source is still open. Don’t get distracted by the channels opening and closing, focus on the source.
That’s fairly paraphrased but if I waited and listened back to the service (like Diane does many times a day as she edits it for TV), then it would never make it on here.
It’s really REALLY easy to lose focus of what’s important, particularly at the moment as the world slips into the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. But, and using another pastorism from Harbourside, we have a financial Christ : so focus on Him for your supply, not where you’ve become accustomed to getting it from.
Really easy to type a few words about that…it’s a lot harder to actually do it.
So tell me – how do you feel about twittering during church?
or how do you feel about the source/channel analogy?
Go on then, comment on both if you must…
love
March 23, 2009
wow, that is such wisdom.
I debated the tweeting thing internally this morning…when you are sitting in a dark audience it is hard to take notes and something the pastor said was something I really needed to remember…luckily he repeated the phrase right at the end so I was able to go into the lobby and quickly jot it down