A little ranting never hurt anyone…did it?

If you think about the phenomena that blogging has become it is really something amazing that has developed in our civilisation.  Instant, long distance communication that a few years ago would have been impossible.  Now, new relationships, networks and communities are started and sustained over the web through the blogosphere.  So, in that way, it’s a real bonus in that like minded people can connect over cultural differences (since the Internet has in some ways become a cultural entity of it’s own) in order to encourage one another in Gospel Kingdom work.

 The downside, and this is where my initial reluctance to starting a blog or even reading them, is when blogging becomes a platform for useless ranting and character assassination.  Not to mention that a blog is a place where one’s views and comments can be very misconstrued.  So that a casual reader can easily come to a conclusion about a particular author on a couple comments he or she may make about a topic that is in fact way off base.  And then the mudslinging begins.  Like this link that i ran into about a one Roger Moran of the SBC who seems to have basically called for more accountability within the SBC regarding the Emergent church.  Now, as it is i don’t know the full story here, however the reaction that came after his comments are far from helpful or godly.  This kind of thing really puts me off reading and engaging with various blogs of all sides of various arguments as things can become very personal and heated. 

 I guess the point  i am trying to make is that a little ranting is not going to hurt anyone, but when you attack another person on a personal basis you are publicly denying the faith you are professing as one who follows Jesus (regardless of your cultural bias or context).  So if you ever see this blog ranting off at some guy who made a comment in a way that dishonours Chist, then by all means remind this writer what is important.  So as the A-Team would say, “Stand up for truth, but do it in love-fool!”

~ by Anthony on March 19, 2007.