Last Sunday (because: Sunday) I launched a new hashtag with this:"Look, if you can't find a church as perfect as you, just stay home and read or listen to recordings or something" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 21, 2013
"I don't actually 'know' the future or the end-game, but I really like My odds so far" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 22, 2013
"I gave My Spirit so nobody would have to worry about that whole Bible-study thingie" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 22, 2013
"Here's something hilarious: I'm going to define and illustrate 'prophecy,' then totally lameify it without telling anyone!" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 22, 2013
"Obey th projected images of off-site ldrs, for they keep watch over their numbers & budget & give seminars on chrch ldrshp" (#GodNeverSaid)
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 22, 2013
"Prob th best thing is if I show porn abt yr sheep in yr head, but not infallibly, so you'll make false accusns & ruin lives" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 22, 2013
"Sure, I gave you gifts for service; but you just find a church so big they'll never be needed or used" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 22, 2013
"What matters most to me about your church is that it be BIG BIG BIG!" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 22, 2013
"You must always be vague, ambivalent, nuanced, nice, dainty, and detached. Just like Jesus wasn't" #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) April 24, 2013
Unfortunately, hashtags also provide an opportunity for bitter little folks unable to gather much of an audience on their own merits. Lucky to have a handful of followers, their talent is limited to aping and gainsaying more creative folks so as to poach for themselves a false visibility on the backs of others. They're like brats who feel clever as they make rude bodily noises during the sermon, simply to distract and get attention. They don't actually contribute anything, but they do interrupt the grownups.
Solomon lamented the principle; anyone who tries to lead would also. These sad souls lack the creativity God gave a dung beetle, which at least can build something from something; taxonomically, they harken more to the tick or the mosquito, content to suck out others' lifeblood. They haven't the wit to come up with their own hashtags. They know that, if they did, they'd be roundly and deservedly ignored. So they must find a larger host organism and latch on.
They come late hoping to bury, so you'll have to plow to the bottom and scroll up. More happily, hashtags also provides a chance to showcase true insight of verbal musicians who bring their instruments to play in the same opera, such as:
Build a sports arena. Fill it with goats, two by two. Smile. #GodNeverSaid
— JoelNotJoel (@JoelNotJoel) April 23, 2013
Hopefully the ones I've chosen, choose me. #GodNeverSaid
— Dan Laska (@Laska247) April 23, 2013
Your theology should be so peculiar that you can only function in a home church....at your own house.#godneversaid
— Daniel Gardner (@dannygardnerdmd) April 22, 2013
"Sarcasm and satire are NEVER proper tools to expose foolishness. Never. Not even when Solomon used them." #GodNeverSaid
— Webster Hunt (@livingheart) April 22, 2013
It's really only the red letters that are important. Just focus on those. #GodNeverSaid
— Matt Gumm (@mbgumm) April 22, 2013
"I'm sovereignly being unsovereign so that you can have absolute free will. Because nothing is more precious than free will!" #GodNeverSaid
— Webster Hunt (@livingheart) April 22, 2013
"oooh, uh that didn't work out like I thought it would"#godneversaid
— Daniel Gardner (@dannygardnerdmd) April 22, 2013
#GodNeverSaid "Love your neighbor, and by that I mean ignore all of my teachings on what sin is".
— Joshua Settlemoir (@Settlemoir3) April 21, 2013
...and...
"I, like you, am much more concerned about the style of music than words that celebrate My character." #GodNeverSaid
— Steve Taylor (@scubes10) April 21, 2013
Enjoy!
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