Reasons to blog

Church IT, on the job, pastoral, training

Abraham Piper recently listed a few reasons why pastors should blog. That inspired me to prod our pastors to blog. I will be formally presenting some of the reasons to blog tomorrow. In addition to Abraham’s six reasons, I’m adding two:

1. to write
2. to teach
3. to recommend
4. to interact
5. to develop an eye for what is meaningful
6. to be known
7. to influence
8. to glorify God

Regarding reasons 7 and 8 above, the blog medium is used by all ages, but most likely to be read by the younger generation. A blog is another tool in your belt for making disciples. It is the responsibility of the older, wiser, and more mature disciples to learn how to best communicate with the younger generation.

There is plenty of content on the Internet that does not glorify God. You can contribute God-honoring content to the Internet via a blog.

Finally, blogging is a way you can contextualize Deuteronomy 6:4ff.

As for the technical side of things, I’ll be pointing our pastors to WordPress. We may host our own in the future, but really, why should we when someone else is already doing it for free? (OK, so we could customize it). Show me your desire/commitment to blog and I’ll show you the blogging management system.

Here’s a great video presentation on what a blog is (great for the non-technical types):

Dave Stone @ April 14, 2008