Blogging: Upping The Ante

***WARNING/DISCLAIMER:  You'll notice that I catgorized this post under humor.  After talking with several people, I discovered that the story isn't quite outlandish enough to realize that it's satire.  It's a joke.  Now, read and laugh a little.

Blogging.  A place to be authentic and share my life with you.  Here's the next step.  All you pastors out there, here we go!
[HT: Lark News]

Pastors go live 24/7 on Internet

LEWISTON, Maine — Recently, several hundred members of Holy Trinity Church watched pastor Jeremy Woods eat breakfast, work on his sermon and make a Starbucks run. Woods had just joined a growing group of pastors who are broadcasting their lives 24/7 on the Internet.
    "When I first heard of going live I thought, 'This is the future of pastoring but I'm not sure I like it,'" Woods says. But after a month he says he "totally digs it."
    "It's the next step beyond blogging or even live blogging," he says. "It's about sharing life."
    The trend is believed to have started in 2004 when Rick Givens of New York's West Side Church decided to make himself "more accountable and accessible" by webcasting every waking moment live. But his pioneering effort has forced other pastors into awkward decisions. Donald Taylor, 37, of Nebraska didn't want to go live, but relented because of pressure from his board. He hated his first week.
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Comments

[Zachary]

I'm not sure that the "Big Brother" model of accountability to God and to each other is very healthy.

[Zachary]

Hi Bobby! I just posted a blog about this over at my site:

http://www.seemegetrich.com/2007/04/investment-metaphor-6-live-247.html

My blog is a personal finance blog, but I thought this was such an important issue that I posted on it anyway. I'd be curious to know your thoughts. It might make a good topic of discussion for tomorrow morning at the Coffee Cat.

[Victor Estrada]

does that mean I have to cancel the camera guy I hired to follow me around all day? Dang. Thanks alot.