Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Power Mad?
SmartChristian has an extensive quote from Challies about accountability amongst Christian bloggers.
So Tim, you still think there is an accountability problem amongst Christian bloggers?
While this type of spiritual accountability is built into the local church, it is conspicuous by its absence on the Internet. Any person can have a ministry online and be free from any real accountability. Blogs are a prime example of this. There are many blogs run by Christians that receive tens of thousands of visits every week. Many bloggers have a far bigger and diverse audience than the pastors within their local church. They can teach, instruct and encourage other believers from behind their personal computers. Unfortunately they can also do great damage. Yet they do all this with no real accountability. I am sure that many, perhaps even the majority of bloggers, have no accountability whatsoever with what they write on their web sites. This seems to fall outside of the structure of the local church.And who shall provide this accountablity? Does Challies want the job? Sometimes the tone of his posts would lead me to think he does. He gives a definite air of superiority in his writing and frankly I often quit reading mid-post just because I am tired of being spoken to like I was a child. Sounds like a humility problem to me.
So Tim, you still think there is an accountability problem amongst Christian bloggers?
