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day 1553: Online Etiquette: Part 7 of 7 – Will It Change Anything?

Last year Jon Acuff, wrote an article for Relevant Magazine, entitled, “7 Questions to Ask Before You Throw Down Online”.  Each of these are worth exploring in the context of purposed worKING and how we handle ourselves in the workplace and online.

“This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.”

“Will it change anything?”  It’s the best question of all.  If we are honest, few things that we try to work out online is going to change something for good or substantially.  Big changes don’t come from small amount of words or worse yet from small words.  So, before we embark on an online game of word tennis with more back and forths than the US Open, then consider whether or not this is really how we can bring about real change and change that will be sustainable and meaningful.

We are God’s change agents.  We need to be involved in the changes that expand the Kingdom.  While we can’t ignore the world and it is in what and how we do what we do with our lives that makes stuff happen, we can still meter and monitor ourselves with “will it really change anything?”  It’s a God kind of question to take with ourselves online, offline and with all that we do.

Reference:  Colossians 1:6 (New Living Translation)