Intentions

My intentions for this online bible study

God, I'm not sure if I can talk to you as well, as honestly, as truly on a blog as I have in my private journals. I feel there is an obvious danger, which is vanity. I wish not to stage a conversation with you for blog readers, but to actually commune with you, study your word, and pray.


Why do it as a blog? Several reasons. One is that it if I can do it genuinely, then not only I benefit, but also the readers. Each Christian has their own way of witnessing, testifying, and communicating with other believers... I'm still searching for mine.

I don't know that I should be a pastor, preacher, or minister - when I was first saved, I thought perhaps that was my ultimate destiny - but I couldn't see why that shouldn't be the fate of all Christians, because isn't what a pastor does (spending time in the Word, in prayer, with God, witnessing, helping others) what all Christians should do?

I still wonder if I should. But of course, I am involved in another field in my career- as are many Christians. And now it's clear to me that if someone wants to go to Africa to help Africans find Christ, they need someone dependable and qualified to fly the plane, to show up to fly it, to not crash it, and the plane needs gas, so we need to keep getting petroleum and processing it, and so on. The whole world is this big machine that may produce and focus on ungodly things, but also enables God's children to participate in His saving work.

If someone comes to Christ or gets closer to Him through this writing, I would love that! But my focus is going to me on my personal relationship with God. My hope is that somehow doing it as a blog will help me be more consistent with my Bible study. I've done quite a bit of study, but not consistently. I'd like to add something here every day. Or at least several times a week.

Another intention here: I plan to monetize this blog - another thing I do is reach people with health messages through the web, and I've done well with Google's AdSense program. I'll add that here, and whatever I make from it, I will donate 50% to my church's new building fund. It's not just any building- it's going to be a huge state of the art facility for thousands of people and include a whole recreational facility and school. Our pastor, Miles McPherson, thinks big.

So I'll begin my first Bible study online here after I get some coffee.