APPROACHING DAMASCUS: WHERE THE GOSPEL CHANGES EVERYTHING

Blogs, blogs, and more blogs. The word is short for “weblog.” These internet morsels are bite size musings with an opportunity for others to comment. More show up in the “blogosphere” everyday.

 

I have been hesitant to begin a blog for a lot of reasons. First, most blogs are masquerades. They make people look like something they’re not. Bloggers pose as theologians, philosophers, statesmen for causes, even spokesmen for Christianity when they are little more than guys with some computer savvy and a strong opinion.

 

Second, it is impossible to keep up with blogs. Since most serious bloggers post something everyday (some every hour!), I think too many people spend too much time chasing the latest post. I have talked to people who read blogs with greater regularity than they read their Bibles.

 

Third, the comments. These are responses at the end of a post that allow people to interact with the blog posting. Some of these are really good. Others can easily become loudspeakers for gossip, displays of ungodliness, and expressions of pride.

 

So, with these hesitations (really criticisms), I am cautiously beginning a blog-that’s-not-really-a-blog blog. After five years of a weekly (well, almost) post I called Rix Mix (I know, it’s been off line for a year…), I am wading into some uncomfortable water, a new approach. Rix Mix served its time and will receive a proper burial somewhere in my cluttered office. I will begin posting some almost-weekly thoughts with a new name…

 

Approaching Damascus.

 

Why that name? Because on the road to Damascus, in Acts 9, Saul was converted. The Apostle Paul met the living Savior and everything changed.

 

His life was intercepted.

His perspective was reversed.

His eyes were opened.

His passion was redirected.

His worldview changed.

His soul was converted.

His mission was clear.

 

Paul’s approaching Damascus is a rallying point. It symbolizes for me a place where the gospel of Jesus Christ changes everything. So I want to use this blog-that’s-not-a-blog blog as a simple way of communicating to our Crossoroads family some things that are important to me as I watch Jesus Christ change everything in our ministry and in my own life. I hope that it will be an extension of my pastoral care over the flock I love here at Grace Community Church.

 

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I hope we can approach Damascus together…

 

 

 

Rick