Tuesday
Nov022004
Blogging as a tool for spiritual formation
Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at 9:16AM
Tim Bednar on blogging as a tool for spiritual formation:
We are a generation of Internet users (not distinguished by age) who view themselves as participants, not consumers. It's important for pastors to note this transformation from a passive to a participatory congregation. Millions of us do not want pastors to be gatekeepers; but we need pastors who foster spiritual formation by co-creating the church with us. Bloggers represent the tip of this transformation. Internet users are experiencing the networked church and it is changing them. Soon, we will bring these themes into our local church. I believe this will be the beginning of a grassroots revival not unlike the Charismatic/Pentecostal renewal of the early twentieth century. ...What is the role of the pastor in the blogosphere? Pastors should blog (many of us are or were pastors ourselves), but my advice is that pastors join the conversation
Reader Comments (2)
Try not to preach or evangelize? Is there anything more important than evangelizing to our world? Thats like the downtown mission guy I talked to who told me that if anything they "dummydown" the gospel message when dealing with the homeless. The reason for that he said, is that they have been whacked over the head with it so much they don't want to hear it anymore. Does that make any sense? And then I see he has about 20 or so persons for a Sunday afternoon service after his mission has been around for 10 years. So much for the effects of dummying down the gospel message.
George: Nobody is saying dumb down (although that's a whole different topic - the incarnation is somewhat about dumbing down). Tim's saying be real. Not bad advice.