Last week I participated in the second Band of Bloggers conference, attending with fellow Sojourn communications deacons Kevin Janes (Sojourn’s Communications Director) and Aaron Marshall, also of churchsmo.com, a blog that helps churches use New Media to spread the gospel.

After fellowshipping with nearly 150 Christian bloggers from all over North America, we witnessed a round-table discussion on “the gospel trust,” led by a panel of influential bloggers: Tim Challies, Abraham Piper, Phil Johnson and Thabiti Anyabwile.  These are all insightful writers with must-read blogs.

Each of these dedicated bloggers challenged us to keep the gospel foremost in mind, regardless of whether the focus of our individual blogs is on culture, music, politics, relationships, the arts or theologically driven topics like missions, mercy ministries, evangelism or worship. This, of course is what true Christian worship is all about — that all we do and all we are is presented as an offering of praise to God; that all of our lives are lived for God’s glory, before God’s throne.

Band of Bloggers has now posted an mp3 of this event.  From the Band of Bloggers website:

“The Band of Bloggers was started with a vision and collaborative effort to unite bloggers who have a passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ. It carries with it a desire that the gospel be normative in our lives, central in our writing, and powerful in our witness to the world.”

To join in this conversation, check out bandofbloggers.org.  Also, check out Provocations and Paintings, Timmy Brister’s blog.  Timmy was the visionary as well as the muscle behind this event, pulling everything together and donating no telling how many hours of his own time to making everything work smoothly, getting sponsors, sound equipment, spreading news of the event throughout the blogosphere, and ensuring that everyone felt welcome.

And now a brief editors note: tomorrow in this blog I will post major details on Sojourn’s upcoming worship project, in both text form and in an audio interview with one of the producers.  You’ll learn the theme and the scope of this project, and much more.  I’m unbelievably excited about this, and I can hardly wait to post about it.  Nevertheless … tomorrow.

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

creeps in this petty pace from day to day …”

— William Shakespeare

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