When Laurie, just after Christmas, offered to set up a blog for the congregation, I was excited. I determined that I would write a short blog every day. For a while I did, but then things got hectic, and I didn’t think too much about the blog. Before today, I had not written for a month and a half or more.
This is my fourth entry today, Good Friday. (Maybe I’m procrastinating on the hard work of writing a Good Friday and Easter sermon.) Actually, I have tonight’s planned out, and just need to put it to manuscript and commit it to memory. And Easter sermons are always joyful and fairly easy to write. Christ is risen! The rest is commentary.
But blogging also makes me nervous. Anyone in the cyberworld can read my posts. I need to be careful what I write. Some watchdogs can attack viciously. I try to avoid writing anything that might get me in trouble. So far, I’ve only received positive comments. But I have read other blogs dedicated to Lutheranism, or the WELS, or Christianity in general that are pure vitriol. Blogs, like other forms of speech, can become a deadly evil, a poison arrow, a spark that ignites a forest fire.
“Hate what is evil, cling to what is good.” When anonymous posters flame others, attack them, or spread lies, ignore them. Don’t comment on their foolish words more than once. “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself” (Prov 26:4).
So those are my blogs for today. 45 more, and I will have caught up with my goal of giving you a daily blog.
