Sunday, October 16, 2005

Vision: Every Pastor a Blogger

It got said more than once at this week's GodBlogCon, the conference of Christian bloggers I attended: Every pastor in America should blog!

I agree. Why?

Because in an increasingly busy, overscheduled society, we need to have this efficient mode of communication with church members and the world.

Because, as one of my favorite bloggers, Tod Bolsinger, said, we can invite the members of our parishes (and people from beyond our parishes) into the specific journey of deepening faith we can take together.

Tod suggests that throughout the weeks prior to preaching on specific texts and themes, we pastors should post our tentative notions on our blogs, telling what we're learning as wqe study, pray, and reflect, inviting others to comment and more sigificantly, to get involved in the journey with Christ we're meant to take together.

Christian faith is an inherently communal and relational thing. In it, God calls us into relationship with Him through Jesus Christ and into a relationship of love with others.

We need more blogging pastors.

And, as Andy Jackson, another blogger and pastor said during the conference, we pastors need to dare to expose our congregations to the thoughts of other pastors of other churches and theological backgrounds: Faith grows when it's challenged and exposed to new perspectives.

[By the way, I would judge that about ten percent or less of the bloggers attending GodBlogCon were pastors. I love that! Maybe every Christian should try her or his hand at blogging. It's a great way to learn as we dialog with one another in cyberspace!]

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