Christian Family Blog – My Blog about Raising My Family as Christians

I usually do not plug my Christian Blog about my family very often because I do not think that people usually appreciate having religious views thrust upon them.

To me this case is a little different though.

Me, being a Christian, I want my kids to grow up a be product members of society. In order for them to do that I need to be that. For my I have gotten the most direction from the Christian Church.

I grew up as a Catholic but as a Catholic God seemed so far away. He seemed like he was up in heaven and we were way, way down here. Only the “called ones” ever got to talk to him and only a fraction of those ever heard from God. Also, the only way to get to heaven was to be a really good person and then MAYBE you would get in.

As a Christian I was taught that God is here – he is everywhere. Then if you believe that Jesus died on the cross for you sins, and you accept that sacrifice, then God lives in you and you go to heaven. There are no rules that you “need to follow” but that if you are really saved from hell that you are thankful and that makes you want to be a good person.

That is where I am at.

I want to be a good person. I want my family to be good people. I want them to be the type of people that other people see their lives and want to have lives like them.

So anyway, back to my Christian Family Blog – why do I have it and why am I plugging it?

Why do I have a Blog about my Christian Family?

 The primary reason is that it helps me to get my thoughts together about what I believe and why I believe it.

You would surprised in the things that Christians believe without ever looking into the issue themselves. A lot of times things are just passed down from person to person and church to church without anyone asking – Why do we do/believe this?

The second reason for the blog is that I hope that the things that I write about will help other people.  

There are other people out there that are like me who are looking for a Christian perspective to the issues and questions that they are facing in their lives. I hope that the things that I have found will inspire others to ask the hard questions and really figure out what they believe.

Why am I plugging my Christian Family Blog?

That is an interesting question.

I was looking for someone on the internet that is a Christian and blogging about their family. So I went to Google and search for “Christian family blog” and I was very surprised at the results. The first site in the Google results was an atheist web site that was making fun of a Christian family.

I try and take the stance where I respect other people’s beliefs whether I agree with them or not. What I do not like to do is trash someone else’s beliefs or make fun of them because of it. When it is all said and done we are all going to find out who was right and who was wrong when we die – enough said.

So anyway I did not think that it was too cool that a site that was not the proper result for “Christian Family Blog” was coming up as #1. When I saw this I plugged my site over on my idano.net web site but my post did not have near the content volume as the other post I was trying to beat so I ended up being #3 under them.

This was not the desired result.

So here I am, writing a nice lengthy post in the hopes that it will knock the other site out of the #1 spot. Please realize that the main goal here is not to get people to read my site but have at least one Christian site in the #1 position for that search term. In fact you probably have noticed that I have not even given you address to my other site. At least not yet.

So finally that brings my to a little rant about Christians.

In my opinion that majority of Christians are really out of touch with the latest technologies of the internet being – blogs, Search Engine Optimization, and Web Design. I am sorry but the majority of Christian web sites are terrible in the above areas but also in content.

When you go the average Christian web site (I do not know of any blogs) the format looks like it was done back in the 80′s. Also, the content is this absolute “you are going to hell if you don’t repent” type of tone. It is the same thing as those bumper stickers you see on people’s car that say “Read the Bible” or “Repent”.

Does anyone really think that those things work?

I do not think so. I think people think that it is weird and it gives them the wrong idea about Christians – it is counter productive.

What I think that Christians should be doing is living the life that God would live if he was here. When God was here (as Jesus) he was nice to people, he helped them, met their needs, and cared for them. Because he cared for them they respected them and therefore listened to them.

If Christians would just live the type of life that would cause people to respect them then I think the world would be a much better place. This stuffing the Gospel down the throats of people needs to end. That is what causes sites like the one I am trying to beat make fun of Christians. Unfortunately we Christians have brought it on ourselves.

Ok, rant over.

So here it is, my Christian Family Blog, it is named The Abundant Life. It has this name because that is the type of life that I a Christian should be living.

Anyway thank you and God Bless.

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