{"id":240,"date":"2009-06-03T11:13:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenotic.net\/?p=240"},"modified":"2016-11-10T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T14:27:42","slug":"john-piper-why-and-how-i-am-tweeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/03\/john-piper-why-and-how-i-am-tweeting\/","title":{"rendered":"John Piper, &#8220;Why and How I Am Tweeting.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/\">John Piper<\/a> recently began\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/johnpiper\">twittering <\/a>under his own name, and he wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/why-and-how-i-am-tweeting\">accompanying post<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/Blog\/\">desiringGod blog<\/a> laying out his reasoning for entering the &#8220;twittersphere,&#8221; which I found insightful and a good read. \u00a0My favorite part is quoted below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now what about Twitter? I find Twitter to be a kind of taunt: \u201cOkay, truth-lover, see what you can do with 140 characters! You say your mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things! Well, this is one of those \u2018all things.\u2019 Can you magnify Christ with this thimble-full of letters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To which I respond:<\/p>\n<p>The sovereign Lord of the earth and sky<br \/>\nPuts camels through a needle\u2019s eye.<br \/>\nAnd if his wisdom see it mete,<br \/>\nHe will put worlds inside a tweet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>140 characters. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/johnpiper\"><strong>@JohnPiper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper recently began\u00a0twittering under his own name, and he wrote an accompanying post on the desiringGod blog laying out his reasoning for entering the &#8220;twittersphere,&#8221; which I found insightful and a good read. \u00a0My favorite part is quoted below: Now what about Twitter? I find Twitter to be a kind of taunt: \u201cOkay, truth-lover, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,5,6,8],"tags":[237,134,227,132,228,133,72],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-faith","category-life","category-musings","tag-culture","tag-encouragement","tag-faith","tag-john-piper","tag-life","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}