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Why Blog?

Pastor, Jeff Mikels has a post this morning on one step closer… about being a wise blogging pastor, knowing why he’s blogging.

Depending on where you are on the blogging spectrum (reader to addicted poster), Jeff contemplates how blogging relates to Colossians 4:5 – “Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity”.

1. Use the blog as a personal journal where you “get naked” (according to a book on blogging by Robert Scoble the guy I linked to above.) in front of your virtual audience and basically share anything and everything. Of course, there is some room for discretion, but in general, it’s your personal journal viewable by the world.
2. Use the blog as a “content management system” which basically means you maintain your own online magazine with articles essays and whatnot and use a blog mechanism to manage your content and people’s comments on your content. One example of that is The Resurgence.
3. Use the blog as a hodge-podge mix of the two—blogging about whatever seems to come to mind. (I’m not sure it fits, but I’ll link to it anyway.) See Tim Challies’ blog for an example of a blog that attempts to be personal & academic though it weighs more toward the academic side.

I think it’s useful for any blogger to ask the same question.

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