Bad Blogger

OK, so its been forever since I posted anything here. I'm a really bad blogger and I know it. I started this blog because people told me it was a great way to create content for our church website, but I'm afraid I still don't get it.

My wife and most of my friends have Facebook accounts, and I don't really get that either. I know it's a good way to keep up with old friends, but it also seems to make your closest friendships more superficial. After a while, it seems to me, people choose to relate via the internet rather than in person. When our friends get together now, they have conversations about what transpired between them on Facebook. It's like they've nothing else to talk about. And the content of these accounts is not exactly profound. It seems to me that our culture has sort of given up on doing or saying anything of significance, and now we just treat the everyday and the mediocre as if it was significant.

Honestly, I feel that way about blogging. I follow the blogs of some of the leaders in the missional church movement. I've read their books and attended their seminars and really benefited from both. Their blogs, on the other hand, not so much. Oh, now and then there is a gem of wisdom, but overall blogging doesn't seem to be about that.

I've been writing a book for the last couple of years. It's not a long book. It should have been finished more than a year ago. But I find when you write a book you labor over every page. It's a huge investment of time and effort, and you want it to come out just right. A blog, on the other hand, requires virtually no investment (no pun intended). Let's face it, if it weren't for blogs and facebook and twitter and all the rest, none of this stuff would ever get written or published, because the vast majority of it isn't all that interesting.

I've been writing this blog for the benefit of a potential audience to thoughts about the missional experience of church. The few replies I've received since I began have mostly been from people who wanted to argue some point only vaguely related to my topic. I figure they can start their own blogs for that. I've decided to stop writing this for other people, and start writing it for myself. God knows I need the outlet, and most of the time I'm probably the only one reading it anyway.

However, one thing I do crave is the opportunity to share the missional journey with others who are taking it. So, if you are on that journey and something that turns up here resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you.