ReligionWriter.com recently posted a great review of The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch. It's been good to see how more and more pastors and church leaders are recognizing the value of blogging, and this book is an excellent primer at getting past the technical hurdles and providing great practical how-tos. Here's an except:
The book provides much of the nuts-and-bolts how-tos offered in other general-audience blogging books, such as Bob Walsh’s Clear Blogging, but the authors constantly set the more technical information against a church background. For example, on the question of having more than one church blog, they write, “There is always a need for church-wide communication, but you eventually reach the point where people in the singles ministry might be uninterested in this summer’s junior high beach retreat.” ...To find out how church blogging actually works on the ground, ReligionWriter emailed church-planter Ben Arment, pastor of Reston Community Church in Reston, Va., whom Bailey and Storch praised as an innovative church blogger.
Our church has had book bloggin as part of its designer core for about a year now...didn't know others were doing it. Love it, it allows people to take responsibility for their own spiritual growth and on top of that, it allows them to be more amped and geared up for the vision before you even talk it, so they can bring fresh ideas and perspectives in the conversation...
Posted by: Matthew | May 13, 2008 at 01:40 PM