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Posted By Paul on January 13, 2005

I hope that I’m not being too big-headed in saying that I kept bugging my Pastor to blog until he finally did so. And now he is really ‘getting it’ and hitting his stride, blog-wise.

Ted Bolsinger is another Pastor who ‘gets it.’ And in his review of Hugh Hewitt’s new book, Blog, he explains a lot of the reasons why, if you are a Pastor (or a teacher), you should be blogging. You owe it yourself to check this out.

It Takes A Church…: How Hugh’s Book Will Help You Get It: A review.

I’ll return to my series on The Bono Effect and Christianity as a “practical romance” soon, but I have to interrupt it for two posts on Hugh Hewitt’s new book, called, appropriately enough, Blog. And these posts are aimed mainly for pastors (and for church members who are trying to figure out why their pastor does this “blogging thing.”)…..

…..As I said, back then, I didn’t get it. I just blogged because Mark said it was a good way to get some ideas out and get some people to interact with my writing. Now, three months and 20,000 hits later, it’s coming into focus. This blog thing is powerful. If you read his book, you will get it much easier. Bottom line: There is no more effective, cost efficient, time efficient and growing way to communicate something as important as the truth of Christianity than through a whole hosts of pastors and teachers blogging. And, if Hugh is correct, this is only the beginning of a whole “reformation. (Read the whole article…)

Update/apology
Thanks to those of you who emailed and let me know that I had mispelled Byron’s name in the link to his site. And my apologies to anyone who tried to click to his site and were unable to because of my mistake.

You’d think that by now I’d know how to spell his name correctly without any typo’s. I’ve certainly signed him (and his various pets)(and my own unique mis-spellings of his name) up for enough things over the years. See, Byron and I have been best friends since we were in high school, back in Roanoke, VA, 30 years ago. (well, actually, Byron was often my only friend, so the best friend part was sort of by default) Starting way back then, I loved to take those little postcard mailers that come in magazines, or that you get packs of as a high school student to get more information about future educational or career opportunities (trust me, that really was the way you signed up for information back in the 70’s) and I’d fill them all out with Byron’s name. Byron usually found that somewhat amusing, but I’m afraid his momma was a little bent when I signed her precious son up to join the Marines! I got to spend some quality time in the school office for that one. (Although, truth be told, it seems like half my high school time was spent in that office for one thing or another. Me and Doc Stone were real pals!) I think, to this day, one of Byron’s long-since deceased cats still gets enrollment offers for various colleges. And maybe, if enough of you ask him, Byron will tell you about the time, not that many years ago, when we were going to meet in Pittsburgh at a sports memorabilia convention; there were thousands of people in the hall and I couldn’t find him (he was busy looking for Darryl Strawberry baseball cards) and the unique way I had him paged. (Note: if he doesn’t tell, I will)

So, as you can see, there really was no excuse for my mis-spelling of his name.

 

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