4 Easy Steps to Turn Sermons Into Blog Posts
April 14th, 2008 Categories: Christian Blogging Tips
If you’re anything like my pastor, you spend hours upon hours each week slaving over your outline, seeking the Lord in prayer, and making every effort to be as prepared as possible when Sunday rolls around. I’d like to offer a few simple tips to change all of that hard work into some quality, top-notch blogging:
- Cut the fat: Remember that your web 2.0 disciples usually have a shorter attention span than your Sunday morning flock, so keep it short and sweet.
- Stay on Topic: If you’ve written a beautiful, flowing outline about how faith allows us access to grace, which in turn begins the work of justification which ultimately leads us into the process of sanctification, you’re a regular Billy Graham. The problem is, your blogging buddies probably prefer one topic at a time. Break it down into a three part series, and link each article to the next.
- Inject some personality: Your church members have the benefit of seeing you, in all your glory, as you breathlessly stalk the pulpit and deliver your sermons with all the conviction that you can muster. Your internet readers have no such luck. Therefore, proof read your copy several times. If it sounds boring to you, it’s probably a snooze fest to everybody else. Throw in a joke or something, will ya?
- Rewrite the Headline: While a headline such as “The Abiding Glory of a Majestic God” might bode well from the pulpit, it will only result in people clicking off of your blog on the internet. Instead, try something like, “Three Reasons Why God Is Bigger Than You Think.” You get the idea. Paint a picture with your headlines.
OK. Do those things, and you’ll be like Martin Luther posting his theses on the door…except you’ll be posting your sermons on the internet…..in America instead of Germany…..and you won’t need a hammer and nails…..but I digress. You’ve done a lot of work on your sermons. Now, let them work for you.
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Great Post!