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I can’t remember who exactly said this, but I remember some notes I jotted down concerning community websites, Churches in particular, that goes something like this this:

[concerning the use of the internet, and social applications] … your users are already doing this, in your pews.

If they’re online, why aren’t they talking about you?

And one that ties it together, and prompts you to take this seriously:

The internet is a ‘web’ of links. With nothing to link to, even their mentions (of you) aren’t “sticky”.

Think about that.

I think I jotted those down while listening to an episode of Geeks and God.

Growing up, I thought that the cupboards and medicine cabinets stocked with so many different little rattling bottles and such were a bit weird. I wondered why there was always so much stuff in there.

And I remember, for some odd reason, the sound of someone stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night, fiddling around to find some noisy container, shaking something out of it, and heading back to whatever bed they crawled out of. (It was mostly the adults or grandparents – “the old people” – doing this).

Tonight, I found myself trying to quietly enter the bathroom, dig through the cupboard to find the headache medicine amongst the basket of once-used “pink stuff”, bug spray, allergy relief, etc; and to shake out just one of a crowd of those little pills, and quietly make my way back to the room.

Somehow, I found myself listening to all of these sounds from outside my own perspective and I realized what was happening: I now fully qualify for the “old person” award, given out by my 10-year-old self. Thanks, self.

I accidentally stumbled across the blog of Kevin DeYoung the other day, and noticed an interesting looking book, of which he is the author: Just Do Something.

I’ve never read any of his books, and very little of his blog, so I’m not here to vouch for anything he says. What I’d like to point out is the full title of this book:

Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc.

The title alone is worth thinking about.