A twitter of a blog!

So I now Twitter.[Twitter Name: GilbertFoster]
Yep.
140 words – say it with less words.
A real discipline.
But in leadership I'm more and more appreciating the less words route.
This is not the same as me going home and Carolyn wanting to talk to me and I say “can you give me the short version babe” – that’s just bad.

Take for example last week.
I left the office at 11am, drove 25 miles, ate lunch (which I needed to do anyway) with Tim Brown a pastor in Clovis, drove back and was at my desk by 2pm. Three quick, simple hours ….but that relatively short time was so helpful in multiple areas of ministry leadership and thought process.
The week before I’d left home on a late Sunday afternoon, drove 4 hours, slept in an hotel room, sat for 6 hours at a seminar, drove 4 hours home, exhausted for the rest of that day (14 hours total)….and in truth, the 60 minute talk with Tim was more beneficial – short, sweet, 140 word principal.

Short and sweet.
Maybe that’s why 140 word tweets appeal.

So rather than write a really long blog that few will read …here’s my twitter equivalent:

Great article on missional church by Tim Keller:
http://www.redeemer2.com/resources/papers/missional.pdf

Interesting book to read on the history of Emergents:
The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier @ Tony Jones.

Perhaps a balanced critique of the Emergent movement:
http://www.9marks.org/CC/article/0,,PTID314526%7CCHID598016%7CCIID2249226,00.html

Five e-articles on missional church:
http://blogs.lifeway.com/blog/edstetzer/the-meanings-of-missional.html

Great short read for Easter Sunday preach:
Jesus, the Final Days: What Really Happened@ Craig Evans & N.T. Wright.

Each was less than 140 words – hope they are helpful.