A place for people to share their thoughts and feelings; basically to share their lives online. I used to think that it was absolutely pointless, basically that if you wanted to get to know someone, then go and spend time with them. I never saw the point of one. The same rule applied to me with friendster, facebook and any other peer to peer websites; I just created accounts for other people's sake.
Then came bible college... My New Testament lecturer, Mark Keown talked about Paul and how he was adept in the culture of his day. The letters he wrote and the messages he preached was directed to his audiences in a way they would understand, accoring to their culture and times. For example, his letters(epistles as we now know them) follow the format of the times. In Acts 17, while preaching to the Athenians, he showed knowledge of what their poets have written and even uses what was inherently their culture against them (Acts 17:28). He also understood their mindset and their thinking (Acts 17:22), he even commended their attention to spirituality.
That basically set me on the course of rethinking what we mean by "we are in the world, but not of the world". Surely we are to understand the things of the world if we are to connect with the world.
Long story short, that was my motivation for facebook and now the blog. Amazing what bible college can do.
--Kev
4 comments:
I am not a blogger myself. But what I understand is the fact that there are some people who just can not express their ideas or emotions verbally. People who are not gifted in speaking or talking, nor articulate would find writing as a better method of communicating. In my case, writing allows me to buy some time before I say something irrelevant. See, Blogs are essential shepherd, not pointless.
It is good to see that even your motivation to start blogging is based on Holy Scriptures. That book is full of wisdom. I mean who would have thought that the idea of 'inculturation' was already used on Paul's era. Best example of inculturation that I can think of is teaching a basketball player the physics of projectile motion and its mathematics. I guess the only way you can let people understand something is by using their own culture.
Good point Rhys, just because someone doesn't have anything to say doesnt meant that they have nothing to say...
i think i remember this time. rhys told me that you have a blog and it's pretty good.
i ignored him, of course, but now i know i should've paid a little more attention.
you write with your heart, mind and soul. that's precious, kev.
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