Hey, Anglican Twitter! I have some thoughts this Monday morning 1/...

If you see something that seems to have come from @churchofengland but you’re not sure what the context is / who wrote it / what audience it was written for - why not investigate before you comment? 2/...

Even if you don’t want to wait before commenting, how about reflecting on who/what @churchofengland is - a group of inter-dependent organisations that exist to serve local churches to flourish and be the churches Jesus calls them to be... 3/...

...staffed by people who care about the church and want to do their best work to enable the mission of God. And having reflected on this, perhaps your comments might honour those people even while disagreeing with them? (Yes, even bishops) 4/...

And if the language seems bureaucratic or managerial, perhaps it helpful to compare them to the wording of your parish’s PCC minutes or church hall booking policies. Not very good at communicating the joy of following Jesus? Not what they were intended for. 5/...

I hope those of us who want to see the Church (holy, catholic, apostolic and United) thrive might throw our energy into following the Way rather than whipping up Twitter storms... 6/end