A few weeks ago my friend, Joe (whom I discovered through a link on Alex’s blog), posted that he was done blogging about the goings-on in the SBC. Its through his blog I came upon a plethora of blogs of SBC pastor-types and I gotta tell ya, I’m with Joe on this. I’ve not blogged on the issues and politics and power and control crap I’ve seen because it just makes me nauseated to even think about it. But I feel compelled to say something here about what I’m seeing in these pastor-types blogs of late.

I’ve noticed that of all the many things they discuss, and there is no derth of topics, there is something very conspicuously missing:

Jesus.

Even Alex, bless his soul, spends more time talking about "the mystic" or church-planting philosophy than on what God is teaching him right now, or what passionate discussions He and Jesus are locked into currently.

Why is that? Why is it that we are so bent on discussing every spiritual topic known to man except what God is teaching us, working in us, stirring in us right now? As I followed the umpteen-millionth link and read the umpteen-millionth blog, I wondered, where is Jesus in all this?

I’m not saying that every post needs to be "And the Laaahwrd said to me…" (in booming baritone voice). But it would be nice to read posts that are much more personal and Jesus-oriented than what I see on the pastor-type blogs today.

One blogger carries on about landmark-ism. Another rails against the new nominee for SBC president, several others give reports on the latest church-planting conference or missional conference of some sort, still another gives a review of the latest controversial film, tv show or book.

But what did Jesus teach them through these things? Where is He in all of this?

What an opportunity a blog is! People read this space that I will probably never meet this side of the Veil. We have one opportunity to grab their attention and give them a word of Hope before they click on another link and move on. Shouldn’t what we post about somehow point to Jesus?

I’m not saying that every word of our blogs ought to be all scriptural and "religious". That turns people off just as much as if we hit them on over the head with our biggest hard-back Bibles. But what I am saying, what I am convinced of, is that what we are passionate about is revealed in what we write. Our passions will inevitably infiltrate and permeate every post we write. If your passion is church-planting, then that’s what will permeate your posts. If its politics — whether in the secular or denominational realm — it will permeate your blog.

What are our blogs, our daily/weekly/monthly posts, saying about our passions? What does our writing reveal about our true passions?

And where is Jesus?