Video blogging is a lot more work than I thought!I am not just a first-time church planter. I am also a first-time senior pastor. Most church plants fail, and so do most first-time senior pastors. I don't want to mess this up, so I try to be very intentional about everything I do.
The most important thing to me is maintaining spiritual discipline. I know that if I don't stay in the Word every single day, I will rot, both spiritually and professionally. I don't want my church to fail because I'm too lazy to stay attached at the hip to the Holy Spirit.
What better way to immerse myself in Scripture, I thought, than to commit myself to writing a daily devotional?
The first few weeks went well. It was like having to pray through and research an entire sermon every day. Very cool. I close my eyes every night and Scripture pours through my mind.
Then I thought, 'Wouldn't more people see it if it was a video instead of just a written blog?' On my best day, 43 people read 82 of my posts. Most days are a fraction of that. Video would have to be better. My top video has 2,661 views in 2 months. Who wants to read when they can watch?
How hard could it be simply film myself delivering my blogs instead of just typing them?
It turns out that writing, taping, editing and posting a video blog is about 100 times harder than just writing one. What you'll see below is my very first daily "vlog." It's not perfect, but it's better than my first version - that one was pitiful. The serious problem is that it took me two whole days to get to where I'm at. I'll have to speed up this process or it won't be a daily vlog.
So here it vlog #2, which I thought was the best in the series:
Philippians 1 27 part 2 of 3 from Rob Selfors on Vimeo.
I'd love some tips for handling the inevitable breaks more smoothly, plus whatever else your video blogging has taught you.
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