so i was thinking about this today and i think i tend to slip into writing stuff (sometimes) for the blog with a half eye on how many hits it will get and ‘how popular it is becoming’ [it’s not] and so on and i really want to get back to the original intention which was to express my thorts and mind and dreams and wrestlings and humourisms here mainly for me – i do still want it to encourage and challenge and revolutionise and affect others, but i don’t want the intention to be me trying to hit an audience – i believe what needs to hit certain people will be good enough to do so and so my intention is to now try harder to just be real and relevant and rougher and. audience of one. God is watching us.
or something.
Irresistibly Fish 
Yes! I get it. That is me, too! Love you, guy.
Hey Brett, I only started reading blogs this year and besides the fact that you and B might have that issue, there are guys like me that read and benefit from what you write 🙂 I really appreciate both of you and B’s honesty on the web – there’s so much other junk around.
Simon
I agree. When people become popular, they become corrupt. Popularity = Power and we all know power corrupts. I challenge you to one month of not going onto the internet, not posting anything, not being on show or attracting attention, not performing, talking, preaching, bing amongst large groups of people at the center of attention. In other words; one month of isolation or solitude or near solitude. Just you and your wife, without being on the go, living the high life. Is it possible? You could go out into the wilderness and really look at your reasons for doing things. Would you be doing this without an audience? Would it be exactly the same for you without an audience or would it be less? Are your motives completely for Jesus or do you eat a few slices of the cake in seeking an audience, in being humerous? Would you still write this blog if nobody came to read it? Obviously the reason for a blog is so that people can read it, but you get my drift… It is much easier when you have an audience. You could argue that they go hand-in-hand i.e. all the Christians prop each other up, support each other and all. But doesn’t this contribute to a social group? Any social group about anything such as a gardening club, or book club, or beach going club could hype themselves up just like Christians do. Is it about Jesus or is it about being social and accepted into a group and being humorous and acknowledged as a guru? Would Jesus be enough for you to have a full month of just Him alone? Without the audience, the viewers, the fans, the students, the apprentice? Or would you argue that having your audience is a part of the whole? Possibly you could, but then you’ll never know for sure? Are you addicted to Jesus or to your audience and fame?
Yes yes, but by speaking to your audience you are serving Him. Correct, and I don’t argue that point – it is a valid point. But what I am doing is questioning. Perhaps you are being a servant in a nice clean palace of an audience. Not too difficult, nice water, clean air, pretty young people all gathering around. Not as attractive as serving in a gutter or to chatting to the ugly, the old, the condemned. Easy Christianity with its perks of travel, pretty young audience, fun times, drinks, parties, gatherings, get togethers, people laughing at your jokes as with a performer. Sounds like a fun life. Who is such a person serving then? Himself or Jesus? His ego or Jesus? I therefore challenge you to one month of solitude.