Dear Blog readers,  I’ve noticed a new trend away from emails to “blogs” here recently (of course, I’m a little slow technologically speaking) and have decided to be in the world though not of it (doesn’t that sound like a cliché used wrongly) by starting my own blog of my Just a Thoughts (JATs) and also including a few thoughts from my friends as well.  Right now, you are reading one of them.   

Have you thought about the movement away from emails to blogs?  Honestly, it’s matching up to Christianity’s approach to outreach.  Follow me here for a minute.  An email must be initiated by the sender and can reach only those to whom it is addressed.  It’s typically not accompanied by bells and whistles like pics and mp3 songs, doesn’t sport eye grabbing graphics, and is a completed package of words given by one person to another.  A blog attracts attention through its ambience, its appeal to the senses, and its ambiguity.  You read something written by someone and then leave without them ever knowing you were there, only to return a week or day later to gain knowledge at the loss of accountability. 

If you have ever evangelized one-on-one, you know the lack you feel as you have nothing to attract attention but yourself.  Your words and your life are all you have to share and when the message is rejected, you feel that rejection first hand.  But if evangelism to you equals sharing a pew with a stranger in a multimillion dollar facility, hand clapping music reverberating off the walls, and a message as whimsically forgotten as it is received, then you’ll never understand these words of Jesus Christ, “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me, rejects him who sent me” (Luk 10:16).  Read the blogger and not just the blogs.