Blog... to write

In honor of my one year blogoversary, I have decided to do a small series on why I blog, based on an excellent article by Abraham Piper. Even though the article was written to persuade pastors to blog, I have found the reasons and principles to be true for any Christian blogger.

The first reason I blog is to write:

Blogging is an excellent method for cultivating and honing your writing skills, if thoughtfully recognized. By writing enough to form a well-written blog post, you are formulating ideas and completing thoughts. Plus you have the added benefit of hearing how well your writing is accepted and understood by your commentors (keeping in mind that expressing truth will not always be warmly "accepted"). Your commentors can also help in sharpening and shaping your published ideas and thoughts.

Keeping up a blog also inspires you to write consistently. Normally our lives refuse make room to sit down and write, but having a blog creates an artistic outlet to regularly write quality thoughts.

Abraham Piper writes,

There is no better way to simply and quickly share your writing than by maintaining a blog. And if you’re serious about your blog, it will help you not only in your thinking, but in your discipline as well, as people begin to regularly expect quality insight from you.

Let us also remember that blogging is talking to real people. Every word should be carefully typed. "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear." Ephesians 4:29