Recently, I’ve been thinking about why I got started blogging. Overall, it’s evolved over a number of years.
Many people don’t realize that I started blogging in 2004 on Blogger. I loved it at first, but each time I would start a blog I would eventually lose enthusiasm, and let my blog fall to the wayside. Honestly, I think it was due to my youthfulness and impatience. I was filled with pride, and wanted recognition. That was why I blogged.
Now, it is different. As a pastor, I want my blog to be an extension of me. Not just my blog, but the words and posts that make it up. Each post gets submitted to Twitter and Facebook in order for them to reach a wider audience than what my physical blog can reach. In fact, I get more readers on Facebook than I do from any other way. And they never read my words on my blog. They are notes on Facebook. But it doesn’t matter to me. I just want people to read what I have to write, and for those words to do 3 things: 1) to give glory to God, 2) to show people that although I am a pastor, but I’m also a regular person, and 3) to help someone change his/her life for the better.
And here’s the kicker: those are the same goals of my life outside of blogging. So, my blog’s main purpose is to be an extension of me; no more, no less. That is why I blog.
