Dane Ortlund ✓

@daneortlund · Naperville, Illinois · joined 22 Jul 2008

Saint, husband, dad. Shepherd at https://t.co/54NQsEY5Gd. I write, preach, and fish. Stumbling my way to heaven with Jesus' arm around me.

38 429Followers

27Following

10 069Posts total

33.4KViews on collected posts

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Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund10 Sep

The longer I live, the more I am puzzled with myself, and the more I am astonished at the Lord's conduct toward me. Thomas Charles 2.9K views · 161 likes · 13 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund10 Sep

@daneortlund I would be interested to hear what your week looks like. How many times a week are you teaching? How many sermons or Bible studies? What other tasks do you take on that others don’t get paid or volunteer to do? Real question, not trying to get a gotcha, pure curiosit 15 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund9 Sep

Desire for grace, is grace. Brooks 2.4K views · 108 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund9 Sep

If the capacity of our souls were a thousand times larger, yet there is so large a sea of comfort in Christ, as they are not able to comprehend it. Sibbes 2.3K views · 74 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund9 Sep

@daneortlund False Premise: “Pastoring” in this context is a fake job, in a fake office, doing something the NT never assigns to one man. The modern Pastor is essentially Protestantism’s version of the priest: a professional mediator the NT never created. 111 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund9 Sep

@daneortlund Question that has come up regarding this: how do you do sabbaticals without it functionally being like church discipline (removal from the church)? we would never tell our members the way to rest is to separate from the body for months at a time, so why would it be f 251 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund9 Sep

I would love to see every church establish a sabbatical program for their pastor/s. Not every church can find suitable substitute preaching and leading, I understand, so these will look different in different contexts, and creativity will be needed at times. But there is 13.5K views · 137 likes · 8 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund31 Aug

@daneortlund I sure wish it was being released a few days earlier! Leaving for a cruise on 10/4 and had REALLY wanted to take it with me! 7 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund10 Apr

@daneortlund Dane, I’m so thankful for your efforts. I pre-ordered a few days ago and quoted an excerpt in my message to the staff at SRC this week. Thank you for helping us to set our hearts and minds on things above, on the eternal. So timely. 404 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund10 Apr

@daneortlund This looks great! Looking forward to it 116 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dane Ortlund ✓@daneortlund10 Apr

Everything's going to be okay. Your wildest dreams, and more, will come true. In a body. Among the animals. Eating and playing. On this planet. Without ever ending. And Sonlight is the new sunlight. Releasing 10/6/26. Available for pre-order now. https://t.co/DEJnFM4OD3 11.3K views · 124 likes · 12 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views1 283this account972median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.34%this account3.58%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.55%this account1.60%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 283	972	1.32×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.34%	3.58%	0.93×
Engagement rate	3.55%	1.60%	2.22×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

11.3K10 Apr

116

404

731 Aug

13.5K9 Sep

251

111

2.3K

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1510 Sep

2.9K

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Engagement rate per post

1.29%10 Apr

0.00%

0.74%

0.00%31 Aug

1.21%9 Sep

1.20%

3.60%

3.50%

4.82%

6.67%10 Sep

5.95%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.60%.

What the audience does

Likes77.8%612 in total

Reposts6.1%48 in total

Replies3.2%25 in total

Quotes1.0%8 in total

Bookmarks11.9%94 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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