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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Tweeting the Bible

This evangelist has taken on an interesting project:
Chris Juby has set himself a task of truly biblical proportions: to summarize the 800,000-plus words in the Old and New Testaments in a series of snappy daily tweets.

Juby, a freelance Web designer and director of worship at King's Church in the northern English city of Durham, plans to condense one Bible chapter a day down to 140 characters or less -- the maximum allowed for a single Twitter post. As the good book contains a hefty 1,189 chapters, he doesn't expect to reach the final installment of Revelation until Nov. 8, 2013. (Juby admits, though, that he might miss that deadline, as he may have to take "the odd day or two off every now and then").

The Christian evangelist started his epic precis last Sunday by boiling down the 31 verses of Genesis Chapter One into the charmingly simple: "Gen1: God created the heavens, the earth and everything that lives. He made humankind in his image, and gave them charge over the earth."
What I'd like to see is someone condense a contemporary worship service in 140 characters so we can get it over with.  I bet I could do it:
Loud opening, greeting, more loud vapid songs, greet your neighbors, sermon simplified to 5th grade level, offering, glad to leave.
Yep, that's it. Now I don't have to go.

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