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Gavin Richardson

grace online and the church : the anonymous response

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a coworker friend mentioned to me that when he was coming up to visit he noticed that someone had written a less than favorable review on our church on google.

"really?"

"yeah, but don’t worry, it looks like that person who gets mad at the slightest things"

so i checked it out. some of the stuff is shallow in the grand scheme of things, but it’s real. it is making me wonder. how does one show grace as a church amongst the anonymous criticism of the social media allows?

i am sure larger and higher profile churches & ministries have dealt with this or ignored these type of things. but as this becomes the norm for smaller or mid-sized communities, is there a difference to responding?

churched : a funny

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"I had only been a Baptist for a few weeks, but it was already clear that God who came to the Baptist church was a lot more particular than the one I heard Methodists talk about- or he was schizophrenic. Of course, at the time, I hadn’t taken any psych courses, so I concluded that the Baptist God just did things differently than the Methodist God."

from churched, by matthew paul turner

i thought that was really funny

pumpkin head : life in the pumpkin patch

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so i’m spending a lot of time on the front lawn of the church. our group is selling pumpkins. it’s a  cool thing, a lot of work, but cool. i enjoy talking to folks and taking photos of some of the children i know who stop by. it’s funny how they surprise me, being all shy then popping out some personality. a part of the ministry logistic that i enjoy