Dec 25 2008
To Blog or Not to Blog?…THAT is the question
I don’t know what I really think about blogging. I read so many blogs that seem so self serving or self promoting. I don’t like promoting myself. Quite honestly I don’t have too much to promote…as it relates to me. Instead I want this blog to be more of a journal of my journey to walk out my faith. I am just figuring out where I really am in this journey of faith. I was raised Methodist, then was taken to various charismatic churches when my mom was “filled with the spirit”. I ended up going to middle school and high school at a very fundamental Baptist school. I ended up at a southern Baptist college. I have seen almost everything. I have been apart of the seeker sensitive movement at different levels. In 1995, I became a part time youth pastor at a SBC church in central Florida. Today, I consider myself a mutt. I have seen authentic faith in every denomination that I have attended. But for the most part, I have seen more hypocrisy than I have authentic faith. Boy is it easy to find fault in the church! But what about me? This is a journal of my faith. Here is what I realize:
Matthew 7:4-6 (New International Version)
4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Now I have to begin the slow process of documenting my faith journey. No one may ever read this blog, but that does not matter. Today I am a follower of Christ. It has only been in the last few months that I can honestly claim that I have fully understood what it means to believe…simply put, I must “be living” my faith.
Stay tuned.