How do you converse on social media?
Conversing via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter isn’t easy when there is an onslaught of opinions and perspectives. How do you keep a civilized conversation going? What opportunities could result from discussing respectfully? Dudley Rutherford, Senior Pastor of Shepherd Church, Porter Ranch, Calif., shares his conversation with an atheist and what he learned through the process. (Excerpted from the NACC conference in 2016.)
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