You Gotta Watch

Writing is all the more dangerous when you write well.

I followed a link and started reading a blog of a young, pretty missionary who wrote emotionally and well. The first post I read was really quite good. So I read some more. The next one, ehhhh; good, but some things crept in that made me cock my head. Then the third, and the comments (since when is it OK for Christians to drop f-bombs??!?), and well, I stopped reading and started just thinking.

At first I was envious because she wrote well and people read and responded to it. (Stop coveting, girl!) But as I read more, I started getting disappointed, and then bothered.

They were responding, for sure. And that's where I saw the problem.

The problem is not that people will listen to her--they already are; she has over a thousand followers--but that people will just listen. She does say things that need to be said, so I'm not saying "stay away!", but she's also saying things that don't. Test everything, folks (1 Thess). That means EVERYthing,(1 John 4:1), for cryin' out loud. Just because someone is convincing doesn't mean they're right.

I know, I write, and I get it wrong sometimes, of course. We all stumble in many ways, as James said. But if you back up a verse there, you'd read that people who teach (as simply writing, simply communicating will teach, whether you're trying to or not), will be held more accountable than those who don't. You gotta watch what you're doing. Especially if you write well.