I used to follow a handful of celbrities on twitter. i followed them – not so much because I loved them, but – because I was afraid to miss something shocking, outrageous, or insightful from a Hollywood icon.
Same with pastors on twitter. Some of them (mostly those from the south) tweet more about college football than anything else. I find it annoying, irrelevant and – as a Big Ten fan – misguided…. I continued following them simply because they were pastors of churches with thousands of people in them. I have to follow them, right?
There used to be about 20 church leadership blogs I subscribed to that I found totally irrelevant and would skip on a daily basis. I subsribed to them because it seemed like I couldn’t really be in the church blog world without being subscribed to them.
My wife and I just dumped our cable subscription. We were both a bit scared because there are a couple of shows that we really like that we won’t be able to see anymore. Most of them were on the travel channel, food network, and espn. Our fear of missing out on sports updates, recipes, and exotic locations kept us paying $50 a month for something that was adding ZERO value to our life. We kept signed up because … well … aren’t you supposed to have cable?
The point:
You don’t NEED to be connected to celebrities. Ultimately, it’ll distract you. You’ll start wishing your life/church/faith were something else. You will start to envy the stories of others. You’ll lose your creativity.
(Last night I asked my wife to keep me accountable with this, to not let me go on and on about celebrity pastors, tweeters, bloggers, authors, etc).
