GodBlogCon 2007: Paul Spears
November 9, 2007 Posted by Amy Hall
Paul Spears compared this masterpiece by Rubens to a portrait of an 18th century man. Both were technically excellent, but the first had substance that the second lacked–passion, a story, something deeper than a semi-narcissistic commissioned portrait.
In the same way, we should not only have the same kind of technical craftsmanship that the great artists had when creating their paintings (in our case, correct grammar, spelling, and language), but if we want to have significant blogs, we also need the kind of substance demonstrated in the Rubens painting. The story and ideas of Christ and our Christian worldview need to support and surround everything that we write. Our posts ought to point our readers to bigger, more important things and increase their understanding of the truth about the world.
This will be much easier to do if we keep our focus on God rather than our own importance and self-centered ambition. The motivation for our blogging had better be a transcendent cause–our calling to serve Christ–rather than a desire to build our own little blogging kingdom where we get a certain number of hits and readers. Though the human temptation is to move in the second direction, attracting us to the trendy (not to mention boring) rather than the deep, we have to fight its pull; it’s the easiest way to kill the long-term value and significance of our work.
Related posts:
- GodBlogCon 2007
- GodBlogCon 2007: John Mark Reynolds
- GodBlogCon 2007: Al Mohler
- ETS 2007: The Practice of Balanced Apologetics in Paul's Address in Acts 17 by H. Wayne House
- Meredith Kline (1922 – 2007)
- Recent Conference Audio
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