- Changing Church (1)
- Developing a Vision (2)
- Keeping up with our Kids (3)
- Soul Searching (1)
- Uncategorized (1)
- Using a Blog (1)
- Web Site (1)
- 18. July 2008: Confirmation Camp-Thursday
- 16. July 2008: Day 3 at Lutherdale
- 15. July 2008: Confirmation Camp-Tuesday
- 12. July 2008: What does it mean to be a Christian
- 27. April 2008: Crash Helmets & Pastor Hileman's Sermon
- 2. April 2008: Some thoughts about Jean Lunt's Sunday Presentation
- 1. April 2008: Developing a Web site for the church
- 8. March 2008: Hello world!
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Hello world!
Why a blog?
1. Our job is primarily to communicate God’s love & power in life. John (the evangelist) felt so strongly about this, he identifies Christ with “the Word”
2. Provides dialog. Faith grows with the development of thoughs, feelings and ideas. The Holy Spirit’s work is to connect people of faith. People of long ago, who wrote the scriptures, with historical people who have responded to scripture, prayer and society, to people today, who are doing the same, and interacting with one another as the Church.
3. To invite a broader community. Jesus brought the word to the people by living with them. Luther made the word accessible by putting it in the vernacular (German). Blogging is a way to get the word out there, even as church attendance is dwindling. Even though church attendance is still getting smaller, spiritual hunger is increasing. People are looking to the web to be fed and get ideas.
1. April 2008 at 17:05
I love the connection between the Word and communication. Even “alpha and omega” is really a reference to language. Maybe you could find a great Bible quote to put in the upper left corner of the page. Or make a pun from “the last word” as in a discussion, and “the Word”. I’m not good at puns,but Nancy might be able to help!