Changing the world, 140 characters at a time.
That’s the main purpose of leadwithtweets.
I’m passionate about my generation. I look at people my age and see today’s leaders. Not tomorrow’s leaders. Tomorrow implies waiting until we’re older, and waiting can be annoying. Problem is, sometimes we’re forced to wait because we don’t know what to do or where to start doing it. In their heart, each and every single person wants to be a leader. But leaders need people to follow them.
That’s where Twitter comes in. My personal Twitter account has 15 followers. Sure, isn’t not much, but it’s better than nothing. These people see everything I tweet (and the occasional text message that gets sent to the wrong contact because I can’t read,) so I am leading 15 people.
How many people are you leading? That was an easy question. The egotist in all of us remembers that. Harder question: Are you leading them the right way?
Some of the most common complaints about our generation are that we’re self-centered, lazy, fake, ignorant, semi-illiterate, technology-obsessed, unable to think for ourselves, and rebellious. And that’s just a few of them. But what if we could start undoing all that? What if we proved everyone wrong, starting with one of the things that they blame for our ‘downfall?’
We could form our own opinions about world events, because we do care about them.
We could defend our own opinions and beliefs, because we can form a coherent thought on our own.
We could be honest about what we’re really feeling, but without whining, because we can be grown up.
Instead of whining, we could ask for prayer, because we believe that God can make a difference.
We could actually pray for others who ask for prayer on a day-to-day basis, because we aren’t all youth services and religious hype.
We could use proper spelling and grammar instead of typing a dialect of English made up of abbreviated words to save a few seconds and some effort, because we do remember what we learn in school.
We could actually call people and ask how they’re really doing instead of texting or Facebooking or even using the ancient communication form known as e-mail, because we do have a life outside of our computers and cell phones.
We could say that we love our parents, because we aren't just rebellious teenagers who would rather fight with their authority figures than talk with them.
We could back up what we say by actually doing it, because Christians aren’t hypocrites.
We could pour into each other’s lives, because we care about more than what we’re going to eat for dinner or wear tomorrow.
We could encourage each other to do all of this, because we don’t have to be back-stabbing gossipers who are more willing to see someone else look bad than build them up.
We could start on Twitter, because we can lead, 140 characters at a time.
Why not? People blame the internet and cell phones (The two mediums that you can use to update Twitter) for the depravity of our generation. So why not use those very things to turn that all around?
High expectations? Definitely. Too high? Definitely not.
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