Preaching vs. Blogging: A Conceptual Comparison
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Preaching, like blogging, is a specific art. It takes planning, thoughtfulness, creativity, and sustainability to communicate on a regular basis. The similarities are so plentiful that I needed to make a chart for it.
I strongly believe that church leaders should take every possible chance to communicate with whoever will listen. Blogging is one of the best, most effective ways you can do that apart from your ‘pulpit.’ You’re already equipped to be a better church blogger, after all, you’re here at Read Scott.
If you can preach, you can blog. However, don’t mistake the opposite to be true. Just because you can blog, it doesn’t mean you can preach.
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“Just because you can blog, it doesn’t mean you can preach.”
Now, that’s a great quote. I’ve only spoken a couple of times and I think it was okay. I said to my husband, “I didn’t suck THAT bad.” He laughed.
Blogging/writing is a little more up my alley. You can edit, edit and edit again and no one will know what your first sentence said
Thanks for the tips.
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That’s what makes me nervous about speaking. Not having a delete button in case the wrong thing comes out of my mouth.
One big difference between preaching and blogging: the preacher has a captive audience who are there for a whole variety of reasons. The blogger has no automatic audience at all.
The preacher will hope, on many occasions, to have not-yet-Christians listening to him or her, and hopefully will communicate appropriately with them. The blogger will only get non-accidental not-yet-Christians visitors to the blog, if he or she is writing about subjects that interest or help these visitors.
There are very few blogs that are really accessible to, or of any interest to, most not-yet-Christians. We’ve done a page on this topic:
blogging as outreach and will value feedback or examples.
Blessings
Tony
Oops. sorry, typo, I meant to put the link for the blogging page as
blogging as outreach.
Tony
Tony, I caught it and fixed it, but I think I’ll leave your second comment up. Confession is good for the soul.
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Hey buddy,
Great insights, great comparison. Interesting to note that different types of bloggers reveal their human tastes, foilables, strengths, “star power,” etc. just as different types of preachers do. Hey, those of us who are long winded on Sundays….
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That’s a good point to make, Andy. Plenty is revealed when preachers become bloggers.
Very interesting observations. I had never thought of the strong connection between preaching and blogging. I think that more pastors should become bloggers.
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Great comparison. Love the chart.
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