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| Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
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Sounds good to me! |
I would bet that very few missionaries have the ability to pull this off… |
I agree, queuno. I guess I wonder why a “field” missionary would be needed. Why not have someone who serves a less traditional mission do it? I guess I don’t have much confidence that it would be successful, but appreciate the attempt at innovation. |
I like the blog you linked to, but I think there is a huge risk of mixed messages being presented. The Church has been so careful about controlling its “official” message, I’d be surprised if this lasts long. |
I’m going to mention this next time people start ragging on me in Relief Society because I’m a blogger. |
Really Arlene? People rag on you because you’re a blogger? |
The young sister blogs and the older sister studies, right? |
I don’t see why all missionaries couldn’t have blogs. If every missionary set up a blog in the MTC and had some training about how to write and maintain it, what to write and what not to write, then it could be a great tool and the missionaries could spend time on their blogs when they couldn’t do more traditional proselyting. I don’t think it would take that much time, and it’s probably about as productive as tracting, so why not? |
Because there is more false doctrine that circulates among the missionaries on missions than in any other group in the church. |
In some ways it sounds like a return to the 19th Century when one of the Pratts or John Taylor or some other missionary would write tracts and get them printed, maybe start up a little Mormon newspaper. |
The blog shouldn’t be doctrinal. That’s why I said they would need training in what not to write. Faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost. If they stick to those subjects they should be fine. |
Maybe each mission (or zone?) should have a group blog. |
I sometimes think it would be a really good idea for an elders quorum to have a group blog. Each weeks lesson could be posted and discussion could take place that would not be limited by class time. EQ parties and events could be posted and service projects could be staffed, discussed and commented on. I don’t know why that wouldn’t work as well. |
But it’s different from John Taylor printing tracts because he was distributing those tracts in a limited area. Sure, someone could have mailed one off to a friend somewhere far away, but generally, the missionary efforts were directed at a specific geographic area. Blogs aren’t; they’re directed at anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world. This is obviously a stretch, but what about official Church prohibitions against proselytizing in Israel and most Muslim countries? Or are these blogs not really proselytizing, but just educating? A Mormon mom in Utah blogging about religion probably isn’t proselytizing, but a full-time missionary might be. I agree with ESO that seems like there are others who could write these blogs besides typical, full-time missionaries. I think I like the idea, and I know I like the idea of using the internet more in missionary work, but I’m not quite as sure about this specific implementation. |
Yes!! Some women in my ward equate it as a sin next to murder. Although, my comments about said ward haven’t made me any friends either. |
Yet apparently they have no problem reading it. :) |
If Israel and Muslim countries don’t block religious sites, then there’s nothing stopping anyone in those countries from accessing them. there are a million sites already on the internet that proselytize everything from christianity to zoroastianism. Adding more missionary sites is hardly going to make a ripple. |
“Although, my comments about said ward haven’t made me any friends either.” that’s why they rag on you. |
Hmmm… i don’t say anything |
missionary word should be just that.. some of the comments make u seem to be cyber recruiters.. is this the new door step? |
and i was just passing thru wondering how the internet was precieved by missionaries |
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