I just wanted post a few thoughts on why we use this blog
Church is not exclusive to Sundays – While this is not a replacement for real physical daily encounters, this online portal allows for at least some level of interaction outside of our sunday gatherings.
In-depth – Especially for those of you longing to get more into the Scriptures, as we’ve been doing with the Book of Acts this past year, I’ll be posting verse-by-verse reflections through the Gospel of John this next year. This frees us from any time limitations we have in our regular teaching time and allows for deeper reflection.
More contributions – We are a community of many unique voices and anyone in our community is allowed to post to this blog. We believe that every voice matters no matter how divergent the opinions and we want to humbly listen and learn from one another. Comments are even allowed to be anonymous as I personally believe anonymous feedback (if necessary) is better than no feedback at all.
Unique content – Lots of thought provoking images, links, media and news can be channeled here for our community. Churches everywhere are building and releasing great content that a community like ours can now leverage due to technology. Our blog provides a place for this and all sorts of other fun, powerful, inspiring content.
Interactions - I understand not everyone will speak out loud during our sunday gatherings, no matter how open we create it. Those of you who find the written word or sharing of images more conducive to how you’d like to share can also have a space of expression here. Comments from people you might not typically engage with may also be a doorway to deeper real community.
Your own pace – Although we send out weekly emails, having a blog also allows for less spam. You can always check here for up to date real-time information on our community. If it’s too much for you, or don’t care to read a certain post, just skip it! This allows for you to take in as much or little as you’d like from our community without being intrusive. You’re also able share at your own pace as well – Have something you wanted to say during a sunday gathering, but wanted some time to pull your thoughts together? Take your time, reflect, and then post it here as you’d like.
There’s so much more, but these are a few important ones. Let me know what you think.
Btw, thanks goes out to Ian for refreshing our header images.
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Ian & Lon, thank you!!
“making beauty out of brokenness together” I love it and I truly believe that everyone of us is a part of mosaic and is contributing to her beauty. Even blog have its risk (for example, my writing may never fully express what I think [yes, that's why i always enjoy and prefer to meet you for coffee to chat
], mosaic blog is a good way to extend our Sunday discussions, put/exchange our thoughts and feelings together as a community, and share our brokenness with each other. To make further what Lon says, to have a voice, no matter how rough or scatchy that voice maybe, it’s essential to make a beautiful mosaic blog.
Thanks Queendy – thanks for trying and blogging anyways – looking forward to our next in person chat as well!