the twitter-salvation connection

Going around the twitter-blogosphere recently has been the recognition that the vast majority of twitter accounts are simply those who have signed up, tweeted once, then abandoned the account. This isn’t a new phenomena, it actually happened in the blog world when blogs hit grandma-cool status a few years back.

My question, is twitter like a lot of the Church? Studies by Harvard & Nielsen suggest that Twitter has been better at signing up users than keeping them. It seems the church, especially evangelical circles, has done well in years past to draw ‘converts’ in. Things like Billy Graham crusades were highly effective in drawing in the masses.

The question is: what are we doing in the church to keep those people in the church, helping them become disciples of Christ? The Billy Graham bubble has busted, the mega-program centered church peaked in the nineties & is on the quick decline. Their is worry among some that the emergent ‘conversation’ is fizzling out? So what is left when all the lust is lost and there isn’t any new thing to dazzle the masses with?

Furthermore there is a recognition that Twitter is becoming a service for onlookers instead of a diverse multi-faceted conversation. Isn’t this just like the church, 20% of the members doing all the work, while the other 80% just show up to be served.

I’m a fan of both, Twitter and the Church. I’m interested to see what either does to offset this trend.