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"Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father."
If you're an evangelical Christian under 40, you've more than likely encountered the phenomenon of celebrity pastors using Twitter to communicate with the world. And if you've read tweets by celebrity pastors, you've probably cringed, thrown things, laughed, cried, cheered, or feverishly wrote angry responses on your blog.
It's clear to many of us that a pattern has emerged: 1) A celebrity pastor posts a crazy, stupid, homophobic, insensitive, and/or racist tweet; 2) This sparks a news cycle's worth of responses on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and Christian news outlets with nothing better to write about; 3) Eventually the hype dies down, only to be resuscitated by the next tweet heard around the interwebs. Am I the only one who is getting exhausted by this cycle?
