Timothy Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and author of the award-winning bestseller The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, recently fielded dozens of questions about culture and Christianity from Twitter followers. The online dialogue included a provocative exchange with popular spoken word poet Jefferson Bethke in which he found one of the influential Christian minister's responses to be "so true and so good."
In his first-ever Twitter Q&A, Keller, who joined the social network in March, took questions on Monday for an hour that touched on several issues.
Bethke, author of Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough(Thomas Nelson, Oct. 7, 2013) and who gained popularity with his "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus" YouTube video, managed to get a response from Keller that other participants found "profound" and worth retweeting nearly 500 times.
"If you could give my generation one piece of advice/encouragement what would it be?" Bethke, 24, tweeted during the Q&A with Keller.
"You are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear," was the megachurch pastor's response.
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