Why should pastors blog?

Why should pastors blog. This seems like an unlikely question, from one whom hasn't written in his blog in over two years. I was busy ok.............Anyway, now that it is linked to our church's web-site, I will have more accountability in writing in it once a week, typically on Sunday afternoon. John Piper blogged in regards to this question once, and it would have been easier to have just copied and pasted what he thought in regards to this. Well, I'm not John Piper, and I do think, I think,, so I may have a somewhat different take on why I should write.

I do write, and because of where I am at in life, I write a lot. Typically my writting consist of: sermons, my continual studies at Luther Rice, journal entries, and various notebooks that I scribble some thoughts down on occasionally. The point is that it is important for a pastor to write. It gets the juices flowing from heart to head, from mind to matter. It helps us think more clearer, pursue issues deeper, and query the Word of God more robustly.

Writing publicly in the realm of bloggers gives open criticism from our peers on how we are thinking about certain subjects, and also it opens our minds up to higher thinking (also if our grammer is correct;).

It gives those whom are not nearby an opportunity to see how we are living, what we are concerned with, what we are thinking about, what we are excited for, and the current issues we are being confronted with.

On spiritual matters, the pastor's congregation hardly see a different angle of the ministry, other than just an outside looking in perspective. In my opinion, we need to bring our people to an inside looking out perspective. Anything that can be done to bring the body of Christ around to that point is a worthwhile endeavour to pursue.

I do realize that blogs are sometimes quite odious, and more often than not a soapbox for some one to stand on and rant about whatever is poping their top. I will not do that........unless it is warranted.