Galilee in Palestine in 30 AD was like the main drag at the Sydney Royal Easter Show or The Strand in London. There was every kind of ethnic group you could find.
There were native born Jews, foreign Jews coming for a visit or to trade, traders from all corners of the known world – importers and exporters – from Egypt, Rome, Turkey, Crete, Malta, Italy, Persia, Ethiopia, Spain, Babylonia, Syria, Assyria. There were Roman soldiers and officers, Roman citizens, slaves, the poor, the sick, wealthy women, rich landlords, Herod's soldiers and courtiers, political insurgents, rebels, loyalists.
Does that remind you of any collective audience today?
It's a lot like the internet community, isn't it? He'd have impacting things to say to the Internet community today too.
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Question 1 of Many: What would Jesus Blog and Twitter About? – WWJBTA
Question 1 of Many: What would Jesus Blog and Twitter About? – WWJBTA
Would he do either?
Don’t know. I’m as good or bad a guess as anyone wearing a WWJD wrist band.
However he did leave clues which you might follow and take up where he left off.
So here's a starter.
1. He’d recognise that the Internet and the Blogosphere are his scene.
He said on his departure from Palestine, “All authority is given to me on heaven and on earth” and so it is reasonable to assert that he would include authority over the Internet and the Blogosphere in his purview as well. That means the Internet is not Steve Jobs' or Bill Gates' or even Tim Berners-Lee's or Leonard Kleinroc's. He‘d no more shy away from it because it is full of porn or time-wasting or perverts than he shied away from the entire earth which in his time – if not ours – was full of the same.
Message: You should be in here stirring up a little controversial goodness just as he would.
To infinity and beyond, then!
Would he do either?
Don’t know. I’m as good or bad a guess as anyone wearing a WWJD wrist band.
However he did leave clues which you might follow and take up where he left off.
So here's a starter.
1. He’d recognise that the Internet and the Blogosphere are his scene.
He said on his departure from Palestine, “All authority is given to me on heaven and on earth” and so it is reasonable to assert that he would include authority over the Internet and the Blogosphere in his purview as well. That means the Internet is not Steve Jobs' or Bill Gates' or even Tim Berners-Lee's or Leonard Kleinroc's. He‘d no more shy away from it because it is full of porn or time-wasting or perverts than he shied away from the entire earth which in his time – if not ours – was full of the same.
Message: You should be in here stirring up a little controversial goodness just as he would.
To infinity and beyond, then!
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