Richard Mayhan @mcProdigal is a former Youth Minister who is now returned from a prodigal run of more than 25 years. He currently ministers to prodigals who have not yet returned and others with a broken heart.

Richard is a board member and pastoral lead for the ministry @worldprayr and leads an online worship/Bible study group on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9pm Eastern.

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According to John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, worship is the one thing that Christians can do hedonistically (Desiring God). We can indulge and overindulge ourselves in worship. I do this at every opportunity and can be seen on Twitter every week night at 9pm Eastern leading Twitter Nightly Worship. Why? I know God’s in it because I cannot NOT do it, it’s not in me to stop. I surround myself with worshipful YouTube videos and some of my favorite worshiping tweeps and we listen together to the same video started at the same time. All participants tweet and retweet the lyrics of the song as inspired and sometimes just make comments like “I love this song.”

Twitter Nightly Worship began by accident. I had a habit of rallying tweeps to pray for people in crisis, nothing unusual there, but I would synchronize the prayers by telling them to begin their prayer at a certain time. One night I was discussing worship music with fellow worship music-lover Marie Wikle @SpreadingJoy and she suggested that I listen to How Great is Our God by Chris Tomlin. I suggested that we could listen to it together by beginning it at exactly 9pm Eastern. There was a flood of retweets due to the popularity of song and the idea that we could worship together by synchronizing the start time. Marie continues to co-lead this with me and we can still get 50+ retweets on our best nights.

Twitter Nightly Worship combined forces with Twivotions who provided the technology and encouragement to allow us to move into a virtual room on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9pm Eastern to play the music and then turn on the webcam and lead a Bible study following it. That has grown so rapidly that we’re looking for new technology that will accommodate the burgeoning crowd that participates.

I not surprised that God would use Twitter, Twitter Nightly Worship and Twivotions in this way. God appears to be completely comfortable with technology. He’s waiting for us to catch up.

Richard Mayhan
Evening Twivotions
Twitter Nightly Worship
Worldprayr Board Member & Pastoral Lead
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http://ProdigalReturns.com
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