What would Jesus Tweet

I wonder how Jesus would have done

In a world with Facebook and Email

With Twitter and LinkedIn

Seriously

How would he have dealt with the intentional liars

And with the people

Blinded by those lies

Claiming to be followers

but doing anything but following

his way of compassion and generosity?

I suspect he would do better than I do

Have more patience

And compassion

But what would he do with those

Who persisted in believing lies?

Who persisted in supporting leaders who

Damage the earth

Abandon the poor

Lie

Hate

Bully

Would Jesus block them?

Keep arguing, even as they return

Again and again to their delusions?

How would he respond to the raw assault

That happens

When one is “at a distance”?

When there is no real accountability?

Just rhetoric

What would he do with the black and white]

Polarized

Win win

Transactional stances

Of people who tout him in their profiles

But deny him in every way imaginable?

Perhaps he would engage

Perhaps he would argue

Perhaps he would try to penetrate the bubble

Perhaps

Or perhaps he would never engage

In a way that did not involve

Looking in the other’s eyes

Being face to face

And accountable

I do know that he would toss a few tables

And that he would be kind

(not a paradox, just Jesus)

I know that he would look me

And everyone else in the eye

And say, “Really?”

Or perhaps something more graphic

And I suspect that I would not be able

To hold on to my delusions

That I would be pushed into the realm of Truth

And that my feet would be set on the path that is the Way

And that I would understand love and life in a new way

So as we argue on FB and twitter

As we use the cover of anonymity

To be our worst selves

It is time to think

What would Jesus do?