This is a such great discussion, so if I may, let me restate the question to keep us on target. Thanks for the reminder Mark H! Great discussion Jarrett!

"What’s a lame, boring, or uninspired thing that you are so tired of seeing on blogs?"

Second, not thinking of any one particular blogger, just a combination of many "pastors" blogs I've ran across over the last few years. If one particular "blogger" came to your mind, that's really funny. Maybe we can call them out here on nuvement.com. Wait, that would go against points #2, #3, #4.

Third, my top 6 blog pet peeves would be hard for ME to keep under control. If I had a blog (and surprisingly I don't) I'd try to rule the world with it. All I have is a Twitter account and I find myself doing these 6 on occasion! So, as you blog, blog freely my friend. I'm not the blog nazi.

Hope this conversation JS started will cause us to rethink our blogs/words as you pointed out.

Fourth, did you hear about the time my good/dear friend Jarrett Stevens and I went out for Sushi in Charlotte? We had a great conversation about time management for worship leaders who drink dirty chai's all day long while they write songs. I'll talk about it on Twitter later. Look for it. It will be titled "Dirty Lyrics!" Should create a MAJOR buzz!!! Because it's all about the buzz…right?

David – i feel like all those points above are "passive aggressively" speaking to some bloggers i know of….hmmm…it will definitely create a culture of insecurity…if your talking about "said" blogger…

haha…even as i read your points im asking myself "I hope he hasnt read mine!?!?!"

however…i agree with all of em! Im a poopy blogger…only have one as another means of putting out music stuff Gods stirring in me…and if it gets the music to some then its worth it!

but i get drawn in on lots of this twitter/blog stuff….it has such a gravitational pull.

so thanks for the great, insightful reminders about how to navigate the blog world in ways that wont just continue to feed our insecurities!

At the end of the day we all want to think "it's my blog and i can say what i want to"
but words are powerful things that often cant be taken back.

So i reflect on spiderman and uncle ben "with great power comes great responsibility!"

meanwhile i mostly blog about my daughter….so take it easy on me!!!

CASE

#2 – When blogs are used by leaders to subliminally "talk junk" or attack other leaders/churches/ministries/individuals who they have a problem/disagreement. Just creates division and is childish. Battle ideas…not people.

#3 – When a leader tries to post the most radical/racy/provocative/outlandish topics just to create readership. If solid content isn't there, folks will only return to see what your mouthing off about this week. Which leads to…

#4 – When a blog is more spiritual gossip that spiritual. If you set your blog up to be a place where you only talk about the radical things your ministry is doing that no one else is attempting, the thousands that came to your last event or the audacious series you're about to launch, some readers will only follow along to stay in the know and to feed their own envy. Watch posting things that will only rouse the flesh in your readers. Point us to something more than what can only be quantified.

#5 – Name dropping. "My good, dear friend, Billy Graham and I just got back from…" Points to insecurity, pride or both. Use names when appropriate, but if it's someone that will create a "WOW!" from your readers ask yourself, "Does including this person's name add to or take away from the overall point I'm trying to make."

#6 – Don't overuse Twitter and Facebook to drive folks to your latest blog entry. Folks are following you on Twitter to know what you are doing…not what you are writing. Let your blog be your blog, twitter be twitter and Facebook be Facebook.

Jarrett, you could do all these things and have a mass number of people flock to your blog. But, you'd be like 95% of other "pastors" blogs I've stumbled across. It's gross and intuitively obvious to the most casual reader when we use our blogs for selfish/prideful reasons as opposed to God honoring ones.

I'm counting on you. The Island is counting on you. Lead us back home…

PS – It's late, so I got a little honest and windy…