Nathan says no. Joel says yes. What do you think?
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December 3rd, 2010 at 3:46 pm
um- no. do we really want the interweb filled with goofy dilettantism and readers of beth moore and rick warren spewing even more ignorance? no.
December 3rd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
No – I don’t. Blogging is something that works out from a range of skills and we are all equipped by God differently (that is no comment on my Blog, as it is quite concievable that I lack the skills, but hey).
The same for preaching, the same for ministry in the more formal sense, the same for singing in a public arena, the same for many things.
Blogging is an activity that requires no skill for writing (particularly) but perhaps a willingness ot be exposed through words. I might write on twenty things, all different, but a single facet of my character may be made manifest in those posts. For some, that exposure would be painful, and even inappropriate.
Jim (above) puts it well!
That all said, one never knows until we we try, so I think that as many as feel able should perhaps give it a try. What works tends to stick and what doesn’t well, doesn’t.
December 3rd, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Definitely not. Lord have mercy. As FDC says … imagine if every Christian joined the choir regardless of ability — and that’s where FDC is wrong: blogging *does* require writing skills. Let those that can write, blog; let those that can’t, do whatever they can; but please, please don’t encourage illiterates to blog.
December 3rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm
OK Phil – you have it right, but I didnt want to sit here as a blogger and make such a claim!!!
December 3rd, 2010 at 7:37 pm
*grin* … guess I’d better look you up now
Hey echurch — how about an extra field for commenters to include their URL, please?
December 3rd, 2010 at 8:00 pm
We bible-believers are brilliant at expressing God’s opinions. Every heathen blogger has a mistaken viewpoint. We have God’s. That’s why we’re so brilliantly bigoted.
December 3rd, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Orsen wins the prize for making me wet myself with laughing!
December 3rd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
http://vernacularcurate.blogspot.com/
December 4th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Found you on twitter. I’m at http://philgroom.wordpress.com
December 4th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Consider yourself followed, sunny Jim!
Like your style too!
D
December 4th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Absolutely yes! Just like everybody should sing, even if it’s in the privacy of their own bathroom when there’s no-one around.
I don’t blog for others. I blog to help me crystallise my thoughts and to track the way my perspective changes over time. It’s more like a sort of “Dear Diary”. Why then put it in the blogoshere where anyone can see it? Well, it keeps me honest to myself, and makes me try a little harder becasue I know that my scribblings may be seen by someone else.
December 12th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
NO! Not everyone can write. (Take that in one of the many ways I meant it
)
December 12th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
@Bitsy, eek most of the time I don’t feel like I can write.