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.
Friday, July 29, 2005
All God Bloggers are Baptists
So says Joe Carter. Well obviously I am, but from whence does this statement spring?
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