theologer

Well we're one shy of 20 registered members how, and I just wanted to update ya'll. If you've been hesitating about signing up, now is the time. Things are plugging along swimmingly. We have posts about good, evil, the Bible, seminaries, etc... (even a post on random top 5 lists by yours truly).

And one particular post I wanted to point out simply because it shows one of the ways a forum trumps a blog in question/answer.


See this post on weather the Bible should be updated.

Come join the discussion.

"Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ" - Colossians 3:23-24

How about "as for the Lord and not for yourself?" Although as I'm thinking that I'm also realizing the thing I have in mind is something I suppose is for men... as well as for me. Basically my life is like this... I begin to write. I love to write. I write because I want to write and because I want to develop my writing voice. I want to become a better writer. So I start to write. I find I can write things that I hope are pleasing to the Lord, things that edify me and teach me as I try to teach...

I love to write so I keep writing. Pretty soon people are reading what I write. Not tons of people, but nonetheless there are people out there (about 40/day) that read what I write. Suddenly I get a big head. Ohmygosh! People like reading what I write? People like reading what I write! And then all of sudden its not about pleasing God or even doing what I love to do, its about writing for people. Or rather, I write because people read.

This isn't necessarily inherently sinful. It just creeps into my every corner. I create a forum because I think I can benefit from it, I think it can glorify the Lord. Then I start to think about how much more traffic I'm going to get because the forum is attached to my blog.

Lame.

I want to do things as for the Lord. It's just so hard to keep my priorities straight. I want to get my inheritance from Him! Not ya'll (no offense). I want to serve the Lord Christ.

Finally, I want to mention that I think the Lord seems to have an unusual amount of grace for this sort of thing. He seems to allow us to do some things for the wrong reasons as longs as their the right things, and then later brings us around. I'm glad he's gracious.

I don't know if this is an idea that can/will take off with the crowd that comes here but it's something I've been wanting to try for a while. I used to spend a lot of time over at macnn forums and have always wanted to have a place to discuss things of theology.

A blog is useful for a lot of things, and the comments are useful for replying, but when you really want to discuss something a forum is the place to do it.

I want this forum to be useful for discussing the things we otherwise just pass on by. Which is why I have gone ahead and posted something on tongues as the discussion has been circulating a bit.

I also want it to be used for people to ask "hey seen any good movies lately?" I think there is something about a forum which brings people together on the internet better than some other mediums.

That said, I don't know if this will take off, but I'd appreciate it if you head over to

forums.theologer.com

registered, and posted something controversial (at least to get us started). While the link is through my site, I would really like it if ya'll begin to treat it as your own (and maybe we can eventually change the name to something more generic). For example, I would be thrilled if a few of you would be willing to be administrators with me and keep things under raps etc... But mostly I just hope its useful, I would like the community, please come join me.

Thanks eh.

-Roger