Podcast Episode #269
Jared Wilson joins us today to talk about how writing informs blogging and vice versa as well as what it’s like to go from pastoring in one of the most-churched states in America to one of the least-churched.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
- The way people consume content online has really changed over the past 10-15 years.
- “I would rather have my preaching drive the way I blog than the way I blog drive my preaching.”
- “Sermons need to be driven by a text; blogposts don’t.”
- “The blog world is a great place to test drive content and process how you think about a topic.”
- “The downside of being on the front end of something is that you don’t really know what you’re doing.”
- “I was in a place in New England where people weren’t Christians and knew they weren’t.”
- “Be patient enough that you’re not pushing people, but leading them.”
- “You find what a church’s idols are by changing things.”
About Jared C. Wilson:
Jared C. Wilson is the Director of Content Strategy for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Managing Editor of For The Church, Midwestern’s site for gospel-centered resources.
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