Friday, July 29, 2005

All God Bloggers are Baptists

So says Joe Carter. Well obviously I am, but from whence does this statement spring?
There is no synod, presbytery, diocese, or other ecclesiastical council that oversees Godblogs. Essentially, we are all Baptists. We set up our blogs, either individually or as a group, and begin to express our theological opinions, all without oversight from a higher level polity. We may choose to congregate together (what is the GodBlogCon but the blogging equivalent of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention?) but our little para-churches are answerable to no higher human authority.
He is right to a certain extent. I think the reason for this is that blogs are inherently personal forms of expression. Mine is no more a ministry than a discussion over the water cooler at work is a ministry. Blogs may be an extension of the Church as the body of all believers, but they aren't generally an extension of a church who meets in a building downtown.

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