TechCrunch is calling Gospelr a “Twitter for Christians”, and that is pretty much what it is.
I don’t understand the need for Christians to go about creating sites like this that do exactly the same thing as another already-popular site. Why can’t Christians do their micro-blogging on Twitter? It’s not even like they’re leaving Twitter (or not joining Twitter) because Gospelr’s service is better. It’s just the same thing…except that Gospelr uses a CROSS AS AN RSS FEED BUTTON.
THAT IS GAY. THAT IS GAY CHRISTIAN. I’m sorry, this is getting me mad. Christians need to step it up and not clutter the space with mindless parody and/or imitation.
I am a Christian and can see what you’re saying. I hope that folks continue to “step it up” and make things that are unique and can be used by all. Thanks for your insight on Gospelr. I will stick with twitter for now because I don’t see much use in it for me.
I feel that the reaction you have to these websites are completely valid.
It’s sad how Christians are trying to reconcile themselves to the world when they’re supposed to be reconciling the world to God. To imitate things in such a way as to gain approval from society when the one thing that we as Christians are supposed to be telling people is that what society says you are isn’t who you really are and that your approval needs to be found in God. What’s beautiful about God’s approval is that we can’t earn it. He freely gives it to us. His love, His grace, it’s all for us and so often the God that is shown in Christian culture is a distant, angry God and that’s the opposite of His character. Instead of going into the world and subverting the culture within it, Christians go in to try to blend in and tell people, “hey! we’re normal too!” We seek approval in the same places as the rest of the world do and that makes Christians no different than anyone else. I hope some day Christians will grow to realize they’re not effectively communicating a message that speaks of a God that wants to tell us how much He loves us and that no one else’s opinion is going to have more weight than His by looking to society for it’s worth and for the answer to the deepest question in our heart, “am I loved?”
100% stupid.
christians or not… imitators or not… unique or not… it all comes down to supply & demand… or simply, money.
there will always be people with bad taste who supply as well as demand this sorta thing… be it secular or christian… and they all have to eat and bills to pay.
ordinary doesn’t necessarily mean “bad”… and uniqueness doesn’t equate “good”… after all, “there is nothing new under the sun.” (1 ecclesiastes 1:9)
sorry for the nonsense… just thinking out loud here.
that being said, i’m picking this up over the weekend:
http://www.christianguitarhero.org
*grin*