why a stranger blogs

I was blog surfing today when I came across a post by Mark Batterson on why he blogs. Brenton was the one who first linked me to his site. Mark is the Lead Pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC and a blogging power house if you were to ask my opinion. Dude has more updates than most of my feeds combined! (= Funny how though most of us on this earth have never met, this virtual world we are a part of unites us in some way, bringing yet another intense element of presence as we strive to bring fruition to our mission. And so, though someone like Mark and myself have never had any form of contact, I would say he has made himself anything but a stranger. As I have been reading quite deep - too deep, probably - into the purpose of this whole blogosphere, I was enlightened by his reasonings. They reminded me of why I was so encouraged by all of this when I began...