20 Assumptions of a Christian Blogger

Read this at the Church Crunch blog and found it interesting (good to follow on Twitter, etc.) Here it is, blatantly 'borrowed' and credited!

Here’s a list of assumptions that I’ve been thinking about for a while that I finally wrote down on paper this past week. I’m giving very little context for why my thoughts have been moving toward these ideas, but take it for what you will! I think these are pretty “safe bets” though:

1. It’s safe to assume that you will probably never make a full-time living off of being a Christian Blogger.
2. It’s safe to assume that you will be misunderstood theologically from pretty much every camp, including your own.
3. It’s safe to assume that you will never have the “numbers” like a secular blog does that may in fact cover the same scope and content.
4. It’s safe to assume that your family, friends, fellow staff members, congregation, and pretty much everyone has or is reading your blog.
5. It’s safe to assume that your pastor has read your blog (and has some thoughts about it).
6. It’s safe to assume that God doesn’t need you to be a blogger.
7. It’s safe to assume that you aren’t blogging about something that’s entirely original, both in coverage of content and theologically.
8. It’s safe to assume that you’re probably not doing good enough of a job attracting non-Christians to your obviously overly-Christian blog.
9. It’s safe to assume that if you’re blogging under a pseudonym that you will ultimately and inevitably be discovered.
10. It’s safe to assume that you’re going to have to work harder, smarter, and better to increase your readership than in other industries.
11. It’s safe to assume that much of your readership is probably technologically backwards, to varying degrees.
12. It’s safe to assume that you’ll eventually question whether it is “God’s Will” for you to be a blogger.
13. It’s safe to assume that you’re not as good of a blogger as you’d like to think that you are.
14. It’s safe to assume that pride is ultimately not a sustainable mechanism for success in Christian Blogging, so probably best to ditch it.
15. It’s safe to assume that your blog design looks light years behind the industry standard for taste, appeal, and quality, so you probably should spend more time (and money) on it.
16. It’s safe to assume that some people will actually be impressed with you and it’s your job to remind them that you’re just as human as they are.
17. It’s safe to assume that the world would be just as bad (or good) without your blog content. See #6 again.
18. It’s safe to assume that people will misinterpret your motivations for being a Christian Blogger.
19. It’s safe to assume that God intends to use the web and blogs to further His Gospel Message, be encouraged.
20. It’s safe to assume that God will get His Glory regardless of whether you’re a blogger or not; whether you blog about Him or not.