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Would Jesus Follow You on Twitter?

Four days ago, during my morning scroll down the Twitter streets, I bumped into a video of Nigerian pop musician, Seyi Shay, enduring a tragic fall on stage during a performance at an award ceremony the night before. Some think she made an amazing comeback, making it look as though it was all part of the dance routine, but that’s being rather kind… she fell. Hard. And it was embarrassing. The natural reaction? To laugh and/or feel pity and retweet, so as to share with the rest of my timeline – and their timeline – the mini social media tragedy, and, of course, also indicate that I too am up-to-date with the goings on in pop culture. But what if before every double tap, tag or decision to quote that tweet, we paused and thought: WWJD if this was His social media page? How weird is it to think of Jesus with a Twitter account? (@Jesus_C? @Messiah? @SOG?) Yet, when we really take a moment to think about it, our Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook pages are platforms just as significa