I did an interview with a Washington Post reporter yesterday who is doing a story on blogging. It got me thinking about blogging. Blogging is second-nature to me.

Just thought I’d share ten reasons why I blog.

#10 Blogging is a form of digital discipleship. Neo-scrolls.
#9 Blogging is the way I share what is happening in my head and my heart.
#8 Blogging is cathartic. It helps me process what I’m thinking and feeling.
#7 Blogging is the way I leave a trail. My kids and grandkids can read it someday.
#6 Blogging is a sermon supplement. Actually, sermons might be a blogging supplment.
#5 Blogging is a way to carry on a conversation with lots of people at the same time.
#4 Blogging is a form of auto-biography.
#3 Blogging is one way of capturing the things God is revealing to me.
#2 Blogging helps me remember what God doesn’t want me to forget.
#1 Blogging is a stewardship issue. It’s one way I share what God is teaching me.

A couple blog thoughts:

I never cease to marvel at the variety of people who visit the evosphere. The largest majority are pastors from around the country and around the world. Certainly NCCers make up a large segment of the readers. But I’m amazed at the random connections that are make in the blosophere. It’s three degrees of seperation in the blogosphere.

One of the blogging phenomenons I’ve noticed is how often an NCCer, who I haven’t talked with in weeks, will start talking like we’ve been carrying on a conversation all week. Then they’ll reference something I was blogging about and I realize that we have been carrying on a coversation all week.

I don’t think blogging is for everybody. It has to fit your personality and the rhythm of your life. But I think it is one way of redeeming technology and using it to serve God’s purpsoes. It is the printing press of the 21st century.

Blog On.