To Blog or Not To Blog, That is the question.

Amy and I have been mulling over the idea of having this blog for about 2-3 years before we actually started it. We first had the idea to have one because it seemed that we were the only ones that didn't have one.

At the time we were reading other blogs that were mainly theologically oriented, and we were reading cites that were addressing certain people's feelings toward other well known people within Southern Baptist circles.

Initially I wanted to blog so that I could express my opinions in response to some of the other things that I had read. I agreed with some of the assessments and criticisms of some of the bloggers (floggers may be a more appropriate designation), but the tone of many was a turn-off.

I am glad that we waited to start this blog, and we enjoy our friends who also have family blogs.

Blogs seem to me to be primarily places of self-expression. Many people stomp and rant as they express their opinions and pose as experts in the field they are addressing. Don't get me wrong, I have my faults (just ask my wife), and I can rant with the best of them (just ask my wife), but I can also be wrong a lot of the time with some of my opinions (just ask my wife - she hears it all).

We live in a world of humanism among many other -isms. People are worshipping themselves and I think that some of the blogs out there are simply forms of self worship. People who think a whole lot of themselves.

I guess my driving point comes down to this - the world doesn't need another opinion especially mine. We all need to be willing to speak up at times, but we also need to listen.

God is teaching me consitently that if left to my own opinions, my own intellect, my own energy, or left to my own in general, I am inadequate.

Being a pastor is the most humbling thing I have ever done because I struggle each week to do an admirable job for God and Jesus, and be a good husband and dad. To be honest, much of the time, most of the time I fall short, and my inadequacy is before me.

Don't hear me saying that I think I am worthless. I'm not. God loved me enough to send Jesus His Son to die for me and you, and that means we are worth a whole lot.

But sometimes our opinions aren't worth much. After all, they're just opinions.