{"id":3337,"date":"2008-12-05T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2008\/12\/eight-reasons-to-use-facebook\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:24:50","slug":"eight-reasons-to-use-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2008\/12\/eight-reasons-to-use-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Reasons To Use Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Okay . . . I know how it is. Some of you are still resisting Facebook\u2019s steady march towards assimilating the world\u2019s entire population. I want to try to convince you otherwise!<\/p>\n<p>Recently someone I don\u2019t know all that well asked me a question on Facebook about the gospel. Perhaps this means I should list \u201cevangelism\u201d as the ninth reason to use Facebook, which should actually rate it of greater importance than any of those I have given below.<\/p>\n<p>So here goes . . . six out of the eight reasons why you should join Facebook are because you will then be able to watch videos of a conversation between Tim Keller, John Piper, and Don Carson. It\u2019s worth joining just to share in this outstanding conversation!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=34324371575\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Conversation: Tim Keller, John Piper, and D. A. Carson (1 of 6)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=34347051575\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Conversation: Tim Keller, John Piper, and D. A. Carson (2 of 6)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=34362476575\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Conversation: Tim Keller, John Piper, and D. A. Carson (3 of 6)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=34366581575\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Conversation: Tim Keller, John Piper, and D. A. Carson (4 of 6)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=34370816575\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Conversation: Tim Keller, John Piper, and D. A. Carson (5 of 6)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=34374016575\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Conversation: Tim Keller, John Piper, and D. A. Carson (6 of 6)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are my other two reasons? First, you can join the Facebook group \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=25337326318\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Friends of adrianwarnock.com<\/a>\u201d and meet other readers of this blog and discuss matters of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you can join <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/blognetworks\/blogpage.php?blogid=4176\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blog Network<\/a> and find other Christian blogs to read.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay . . . I know how it is. 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