How can a blog be useful to a preaching pastor?
Pastor Noel Heikkinnen of Riverview Church in the Lansing (MI) area is using his blog to start a sermon series this weekend on prayer. He posted a series of questions for his flock on their prayer lives and their attitude about prayer.
Check out the response. It speaks for itself. Blogs can be a real useful tool for pastors. This is a good example. However, I’m sure it took Pastor Noel some time to build up his blog readership. I think I’ll watch his sermon . . . online, of course.
Pastor’s are really busy people. They are loaded with responsibilities and they have the chore of having a to-do list that leaves them little breathing space. So where does blogging fall in a platter full of things to do?
I’ve seen plenty of pastors start blogs, get excited about blogging and then discover that writing posts is just one more activity to consume an already busy day.
Are there any helpful tips?
Yes there is. I point to David Porter, a layman from the Scottsdale Bible Church in Arizona, who has a well-defined mission statement for his blog. He knows why he has a blog and he knows why he develops and writes posts everyday. He knows it’s a tool to communicate and he wants to be effective in using this tool. So, he has a plan.
I invite pastors and everyone else with a blog or thinking about blogging to read his blog’s mission state.
