Why should we blog?

If someone would have asked me a year ago to start a blog, I would have laughed at them. Now that I look back I find this strange because I have been with the Internet since its early days - 1996 (at least when it began to build some momentum). So why has it taken me so long to get into the blog world? I have no clue and it doesn’t really matter. What matters now is that I have entered into the “Glocal” community.

 We are no longer just local or global, we are “glocal”. In other words, technology and the Internet have made folks who are thousands of miles away, neighbors. What I have learned over the past year in reading blogs is that I have a lot to learn. I have spent countless number of hours reading people’s praises, joys, sorrows, and mistakes. But it’s not the number of blogs I read or the amount of time I spend reading them that matters - it’s what I do with the information I have just received. As someone once said, much knowledge requires great responsibility.

 As I walk and grow in my relationship with God, it is out of a sense of duty that I want to share His love with everyone I encounter. Those of us in the ministry world understand how much energy it takes to serve God in this capacity. None of us has time to go to the next greatest conference to get rejuvenated. Therefore, I think blogging is the next best thing and possibly even better because the God has the opportunity to use more “average Joe’s”.

I definitely don’t have it all together, nor will I ever suggest that I know it all, or have all of the right answers. If someone can learn from my mistakes or gains for Jesus, just a percent of what I have learned from my new friends in this “Glocal” world, then praise be to God.