Hi Jared,
As you will recall, when you asked me two months ago to endorse your book, I declined to read it because of what I’d seen of your online behavior toward fellow Christians.

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https://twitter.com/jaredhmoore/status/1712978210940465189

Your recent speculations about me and my supposed loneliness on the basis of a clip from a talk I gave 9 years ago are another example of the kind of thing I was concerned about.

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Four scriptures that have been shaping my attitude to social media:

1. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. –– James 3:5-6

We need to be cautious. Our tongues (& therefore thumbs) can do a world of damage. 2. Go on up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
“Behold your God!” –– Isaiah 40:9

We need to be focussed.

Maybe God is giving us exactly what we’ve been wanting. We’ve prioritised individualism over community, the material over the relational, the virtual over the physical. And now we have it. More than we can likely manage. We’ve also been chanting the virtue of self-expression. So let’s be honest: several days into lockdown, is self-expression still the highest good? Do the people we live with long that we’d express ourselves *more*?