Just Visiting "In the world but not of it"

I’ve been fighting blogging for a while since several friends are trying to pressure me back into it. So, I’m going to hypocritically and ironically blog my argument against blogging.

1. Life is meant for living. Sure, you may blog about good things (such as not blogging or Jesus), but there comes a point when you do things or read the bible or find quotes just to blog what you did or what you read. I’m sick of people recording their lives and not living them (same goes for photographers in many cases).

2. The things you learn from the bible are for you to learn. God teaches you things from his living word for you specifically in your situation. I can’t read my devotional and 200 other people’s all in one day. Sure, it can be good and encouraging, but that encouragement is meant for you. You don’t need to blog every verse you read.

3. Facebook is sufficient. If there’s something that you think would really encourage people in their situation, facebook it. You’ll reach a much larger crowd and waste less of your life, having one (or several) less website(s) to maintain your profile on.

4. A.W. Tozer is (or should I say was)against blogging and reblogging.
“Christian literature, to be accepted and approved by evangelical leaders of our times, must follow very closely the same train of thought, a kind of “party line” from which it is scarcely safe to depart. A half-century of this in America has made us smug and content. We imitate each other with slavish devotion. Our most strenuous efforts are put forth to try to say the same thing that everyone around us is saying - and yet to find an excuse for saying it, some little safe variation on the approved theme or, if no more, at least a new illustration.”
- page 115, The Pursuit of God. (large print edition)
Sure, he was talking about Christian literature. But there is much more originality and variation in Christian literature than in blogging. That quote is even more relevant in today’s culture than in his.

Now I hope this changed some of your minds. Blog it, reblog it, do whatever you bloggers do, and then quit blogging. I’m done with you tumblr.

fishforpeople:

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.

This morning I read a passage from 2 Timothy. A certain verse stuck out to me: “In fact, Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” - 2 Timothy 3:12. This hit me so hard, partly because of the fact that a couple hours later I heard a sermon about persecution and prayed for the persecuted church. Just awesome. Anyways, maybe I’m wrong, but the way I interpret this is a total slap in the face - If I’m a real christian in a public school, I should be facing persecution. Am I? I find that sometimes I pull away from the subject of religion or Christianity when it comes up among my non-Christian friends, so often the answer is no. I really need to change that. I need to openly spread God’s word among all the school. Help me to do so? (pray)

This got me thinking: Seeing most of my “Christian” friends at school, they do their Wednesday and Sunday routine, but don’t take Christ with them in school. I often find myself in that same situation though. So do we put on Jesus like a hat? Do we take it off when it’s appropriate maybe (politically correct)? When we feel comfortable (around our friends)? Do people steal it from us? I sure hope that doesn’t happen. Lord give us strength. We don’t know what we’re doing.

Hello there. I am Justin Sinclair, and I just joined tumblr… sort of.

I’m not sure about it, and I’m probably just going to follow people, hence the “Just Visiting” (No, I wasn’t trying to make some kind of clever hook. But soon after I typed it in, I thought of “In the world and not of it”). So, don’t expect much from this. I may occasionally quote a good verse from my reading or some good quote, but once again, don’t expect much.

(:])-H