Why I’m Pausing Biblical Human
With reluctance and anticipation…
Dear Friends,
Happy Independence Day. I hope you’re getting to relax and blow stuff up today.
In today’s post, I’m announcing a pause on this newsletter.
I love writing about all things biblical humanity. I’m learning constantly and I love sharing as a way to continue learning and conversing about what I learn. Things about:
God
Living
Loving
Working
Parenting
Churching
Citizening
…and so much more!!!
But I feel moved to pause this project for two reasons:
I’m in a phase where I’ve said everything I know for sure and it’s all backlogged on here in back issues. I hope and pray people find it useful. I want to break for a while and come back as whoever I am in a year, or 3 or 5 years and start spilling again all I need to say.
I feel called to focus my energy in writing on (the subject of) writing. I hope you follow my Newsletter for Christian Writers. I will continue to write regularly there.
I discovered recently through quality time with God that all the things I love about pastoring a church and writing about biblical humanity, I get to live out with my clients at ChristianGhostwriting.com and students in my writing program and Tuesday writing community. It’s church. It’s the body of Christ.
While my main calling will always be pastor/church planter, God has seen fit to sneak up on me with this writing life. What started as a hobby, writing for dirt cheap on Fiverr.com (I’m still on Fiverr, but no longer dirt cheap 😁.) became a career.
At first, it seemed like tent making, a way to afford to do ministry.
But gradually, it became ministry. I began to connect with clients and students on the deepest of levels—and why not? Writing is powerful, personal, and perfect for going deep. To help people in the process is profoundly rewarding (how many more “P” words can I fit into this paragraph!). This is ministry, even if not the pulpit.
Not only that, but I realized something recently. Though I have planted two churches and pastored another, thereby preaching the gospel to thousands over 23 years, I have already reached multiples of that number through helping my clients publish through ghostwriting, coaching, and now publishing at IndieChristianBook.com. If stewardship is the goal of the Christian life, then I must steward this gift with my whole heart.
That’s why I’m pausing my two other newsletters, including this one.
And that’s why I’m asking you: If you don’t already subscribe to the Newsletter for Christian Writers, I’d be honored if you would join me there. Much of what I write about is relevant for any art, including the art of living, which is what I’ve tried to write here.
I believe with all my heart God will give me the go-ahead to come back to Biblical Human when the time is right, and only He knows when that will be.
So God bless you and I thank you for reading Biblical Human. It still amazes me that you would give me your time and attention. I’m leaving the account active and all previous posts will stay there. If you read my Christian Business Persons’ Newsletter on Substack, I’ll be reposting this there for the same reason.
God bless you and I hope to see you at the Newsletter for Christian Writers and back on here again someday.
Jeff
Thanks for walking us through the process of transformation.