@Luke — It’s weird though. Imagine how much more (if you’re like me) you’d dislike people who were actually like the pithy one line faux spiritual statuses. It’d be like hanging out with the person who wrote Footprints… Maybe you’re not like me.

I do like someone who practices what they preach — so long as they preach brokenness and the need for restoration through Christ.

Leah — I don’t think Piper is to blame. Well, not entirely. He certainly did put the challenge out there, and he’s very popular.

Lee — thanks to the miracle of podcasts I can at least experience the privilege it must be to sit under his teaching. He is a great man. It would be nice if more people were as passionate about Jesus as he is — it would be nicer if more people trying to appear as passionate as he is did so without invoking cringes from all their non-Christian friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Perhaps it’s Piper’s fault that the OP’s friends changed their tune… but I don’t think that can be said for the trend in general.

Also, I agree on the ‘faux’ holiness thing too. Not only because people’s twitters changed overnight, but the ppl who you know in real life are NEVER like their twitter/facebook updates. Not that they’re ungodly, its just that in real life people don’t offer all these pithy introspections about themselves. They’re just normal.

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