Thursday
Mar272008
Blogging a waste of time?
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 11:20PM I'm working on an article on blogging, and I'm looking for a Canadian Christian who thinks that blogging is a waste of time. It's unlikely that you are this person if you are reading this blog, but if you have any leads or ideas, drop me a line. I'm open to ideas.
Reader Comments (5)
You might want to check with Imbi. :-)
I think there are occasions when blogging is a waste of time. Sometimes wasting time is not a bad thing, sometimes it is. Why a Canadian Christian? George! He's your man! He has commented at just about every blog he has ever been to about blogging being a waste of time. He's colourful, opinionated and might make a good interview if you handle him in your usual gracious manner. You are the only person I know that can handle him. If he did have a blog he'd waste a lot more time.:^) When you get this article put to bed (is it for a print bunch?) do link, I'm sure more than just me would like to read it.
"Why a Canadian Christian?" The focus of the article is on Canadian Christians and blogging. Good idea - I may talk to George.
Wow, interesting... Check out the times that Bill and Bene posted, are they bloggers or what? It's true what Bene said, I have often commented that it is a waste of time, and yet.. I think I was drawn to blogging because after I got saved I just wanted to gobble up all things Christian. I came to it through your blog Darryl, via Michael Coren. He had a link on his website to your blog and I checked it out. The very first interaction I had with you had to do with holy living. As I recall, from there I kind of started looking around blogs that you were linked to. I ended up engaging with a good number of bloggers mostly of the liberal/emerging persuasion. I read the more conservative ones also and learn from them but it was the emerging/liberal ones that I dialogued with. I wanted to try to understand what made them tick. My question was always - are you doing this because you love God and your concerns and works are a reflection of that, or is it that you have a faith background, you know what the truth is, but you have never really surrendered your life to it, you are hoping that your works will cut it. I think it all comes down to truth, what is it, can we know it, have we been set free by it. If we have there will be certain evidences of that in what we say, what our concerns our, how we engage with the world, are we showing by our conduct that we truly have been called out etc, etc. I think I did and do waste time with blogging but I also know I have learned a great deal from it. I learned there is a lot of noise out there. The time for discernment is definitely now, the time to test the spirits is definitely now, there is a ton of false teaching and there are multitudes of deceived people. It's tragic. I think in the end, again, its all about truth, the truth is so important, it's what sets people free. For me, I have now, just this week, finished one career and I look forward to what the Lord would have me do next. I know it will involve the inner city and broken people. I would love to help them and love them and share God's goodness with them, that they too might see that there is hope, that no matter what their circumstances they can turn to God and be made whole, they can be set free and come to know this awesome God who loves them and who sent His Son to die for them so they too can have life. I have seen some incredible ministries that God has used to reach out to the inner city. You know I always refer to the Brooklyn Tabernacle. On their website now they have some fantastic video testimonies of broken people who have been reached by the people of God bringing the message of hope. I desire to be involved in that kind of ministry. So all that to say, yes, I think a lot of blogging is a waste of time for the most part, but I do keep coming back and I have learned from it
of course that should read - "what our concerns are"