A recent
blog from “The Friday Pickle” carried
this title: “Should worship leaders be
posting selfies?” by Craig Borlase on 4 April 2014. The short post actually
provided more what-if/maybe scenarios than answers to the question.
So, I have decided to be impish and offer my own answer to the question: Should worship leaders (or pastors) be posting
selfies? My tongue-in-cheek view is yes. And here are 10 reasons
why…from
the members' perspective:-
1) Your
members need to know that you are still alive for the rest of the week.
2) Your
members need to know that you always look that good throughout the week (and
not just on Sundays).
3) Your
members may at the opportune time be thinking about the church and your selfie
appearing just at that exact moment would make them feel that they are
highly
favored (even if the selfie is not exactly addressee-specific).
4) Your
members need to know that as their mediagenic shepherd, you not just share to
care but you also care to share (and not just your words but your looks and
what you might be wearing at that divinely-appointed time together with a set
of Colgate-fortified teeth to boot).
5) Your
members need a
personal touch from you - spirit, soul and
the whole body...up close and personal as a form of corporate encouragement.
6) Your
members need to know that you are watching them watching themselves in their
speech and conduct when interacting with the world during the weekdays.
7) Your
members may be thinking about something unwholesome at that time and
your
timely selfie may be the only intervening spiritual pop-up to pop that thought
out.
8) Your
members may be reminded of praying for the church by the godsend selfie.
9) Your members
need a picture of you every once in a while so that they can either store them
or send it to other members as a reminder that you are watching them watching
themselves living up for God.
10) And
lastly, and this is most important, your members need to know on an absolute
must-know basis that you have not been raptured by God and left them behind to
fend for themselves.
NOW, from
the perspective of the worship leader/pastor, posting selfies is absolutely
necessary because of the following 5 reasons:-
1) You
need to keep your members up to date on how you
look during the week so that
they will retain that consistent image of you in their mind when Sunday comes.
This is to prevent any form of surprises, however frivolous, that may distract
them from you when you're on stage.
2) You
need to remind your members that your smile is as authentic as they come by and
they have no cause for alarm regarding the genuineness of your profile, your
portrait and your pious projection on days other than Sunday.
3) You need
to assure your members that there is no hanky-panky on your part at any time of
the day, be it morning, night or noon (even early dawn), and you are someone
who walks the talk and talks the walk.
4) You
want your members to catch a glimpse of your normal self away from the weekend
limelight so as to give them the casual, candid, and rustic feel.
5)
Finally, and this is also
important, you need to assure your members that you
have not been raptured by God as yet, and you will still be available for
Sunday service...unless of course you get raptured just before Sunday worship
and get your members all riled up like meerkats staring frantically at their
smartphones hoping for a selfie of you to pop up so as to disconfirm their
greatest apocalyptic fear.
I hereby
rest my case. Cheerz.
Caveat: Not to be
taken seriously if you are a selfie-posting church leader who does it regularly
because you love your members so much that you want them to know that unlike
words, a picture of you, truly and most sincerely, paints a thousand words; if
not gazillions in your case. Or, if it is all in the name of honest good fun,
then fire away!
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