The monastic impulse in me said I should continue to stay away from social media, but the missional impulse in me said that’s where the neighbors who need the love of God are. I want to acknowledge that both impulses have real elements of truth, many people at different times in life may appropriately choose one or the other, but my time had come. If I wanted to speak love to the world, social media would be one way to have the world’s ears. I needed to learn to speak that language, just as I needed to learn Mandarin to be a missionary to the Chinese.
