dissonance and choirs

This blog was mainly me talking to myself, occasionally including a few friends in my thoughts. Now I've had a weird feedback echo: I realize that a few more people are reading some entries from time to time and that I write with that in mind. When I do, preaching to the choir as it were, things change.

My initial blogging was about how excited I get understanding telos as important in the New Testament. Secondly I used this format to voice cognitive dissonance. The result was I had a slightly different angle/emphasis on teaching and I said it with an awareness that things don't always have a tidy overlap between thoughts and feelings.

Now I just feel like a dissonant choir member.

What I want to keep doing is trying to use this blog as a personal journal. It does help to have it accessible to friends for feedback, but I also need to be able to keep scrappy thoughts flowing. This entry is an example of that. I am more writing to myself than to others, saying to myself that I am trying to write to myself, but being aware that I am telling others that I am writing to myself...