What Happened to the Blog?

That's a really good question. It's incredibly hard to find time to write these days. The growth of the church, the increase of our ministry staff, the family, the garden, summer, my habit of using all my excess free time to fish, etc, etc. I have all kinds of excuses. Of course, I know that if I really wanted to write I could make the time. I just don't.

I've even toyed with the future of the blog. I've questioned whether or not it's really worth keeping up. With Facebook and Twitter who has the attention span to read an entire article these days? And who reads anyway? Is it mostly folks from outside Maury Hills? If so, I thought about using the blog to post thoughts from my messages. I've already put all the thought and work in writing them so it would be easy to post excerpts online, but reading a sermon is different than hearing one. For that matter, writing one to be heard is different from writing one to be read so I'm not sure I'd save myself much time. Or is it primarily folks from Maury Hills? If so, they don't want another repeat of Sunday and if they want to keep up with my thoughts and activities most of them use Facebook. They also get that weekly email about what's happening at church so do they really need a blog article as well?

So I just don't know and while I'm pondering it I thought I'd write down what I'm pondering. I tend to think best when I think aloud. Or maybe it's that thinking aloud forces me to think best. I can't really remember.