Editorial Revision

After I wrote my first real blog entry, I naturally wanted to show it to my wife. While she generally liked it, she expressed concern about a couple of things. First, she did not think I was positive enough about the Sunday morning service. Maybe she is right. I may have made it sound like I was just glad there were few folks asleep during the service (there are always some). My point to her was that I didn't want to "over-sell" the service. I have seen some church web sites and pastoral blogs where you would assume that Pentecost had come again, and it is happening every Sunday! I suppose what I really meant to get across was that I felt like the congregation was with me. That doesn't always happen. I am sure it is sometimes my fault when that happens, and sometimes circumstances work against us, but whatever the reason, every preacher knows the difference between a congregation that is following the sermon and one that is not. Sunday at the Bethlehem FWB Church, they were with me.

Second, my wife wondered if I might be setting a dangerous precedent by writing about the church service. Will people expect that I will offer my analysis every Sunday? What about when something doesn't go all that well? Will I bring that up for review in this blog? Well, let me just say that this blog is pretty open ended. I think it would be rare for me comment on every service, but from time to time I would imagine that it will happen. I am "Pastor Corn" after all. I am writing this to express things about my vocation.

Finally, I have no real expectations that this blog will be widely read. How many thousands of them are on the web these days? How many thousands of those are written by pastors, who at heart are frustrated writers? In fact, I doubt that a tenth of the folks who attend Bethlehem will ever look at this thing. So, why write it? I'm doing it for me as a creative outlet and perhaps as a source of inspiration to a few others. That's enough.