The Resolute

A good blog needs to be updated regularly. I remember being told at uni that you should publish posts 1.5 times as often as you would hope people will visit your site. So, for example, if you want people to visit your site every day then you should publish 10 articles a week, or if you want people to visit once a week then you should publish every 3-4 days.

Guess we don’t want you reading The Resolute too often.

Here’s some stats. I love stats because you can really make them say anything you want.

1. Since week 1 The Resolute has had a 363% increase of visits.
2. The Resolute has 5 times more visitors than the St Andy’s website. Not sure that that’s important but it makes me feel good.
3. We’ve published 20 posts in 30 days.
4. The article “If we ever rant about music, this is why.” was far and away the most popular. It grabbed the most reads and the most comments. Personally I hate it, I’ve still got that song spinning right round in my head…
5. The Resolute has expanded to include other blogs, well one other blog, with Charmian taking a more serious look at the issue of strivingforbiblicalwomanhood.theresolute.net. We have plans to expand further and eventually take over the whole Christian blogosphere.
6. We’ve had zero complaints. Maybe indicating that we’ve been too tame.

So I was going through old articles at sydneyanglicans.net and found this one: “Goodbye MasterChef. Hello MasterPreacher“. Jodi suggests a TV show format where a group of preachers have a ‘preach-off’ each week and they are gradually voted off until the winner gets a prize, something like the opportunity to preach at a Katoomba Convention.

Jodi finishes by asking for other ministry/reality TV suggestions. So I thought I’d add a few.

• Christian Wants a Wife – Since any Christian males over 25 years old have clearly missed the boat this seems a needed service. So we get a few 26-30 year old single Christian men and a big group of single Christian lasses, and you can fill in the details.
• Big Brother Christian – 20 young Christians are locked in a house…. hmmm… no that won’t work.
• Christian Idol – Except I guess we’ve already got this with Australian Idol… Plus the name is a bit problematic.
• Are You Smarter Than A Sunday Schooler – I wonder what the consequences of failing would be??
• Preaching with the Stars – A celebrity gets paired with a professional preacher. We’d need 20 celebrity Christians, should be possible. Or alternatively, So You Think You Can Preach…?
• There’s the documentary style (think Border Security or Bondi Rescue). It could be called The Parish. A TV crew follows Philip Jensen, Dominic Steele and Paul Dale around and we see what trouble finds them.
• I heard a talk yesterday on Ephesians 6:11-17. Made me think of Christian Gladiator… or not.
• Christian Makeover – Some Christian-Life-Councellors turn a fringe-christian into a model evangelical in just 48 hours.
• Church Blitz – Like Backyard Blitz but where a church is given a quick superficial renovation that is guaranteed to look tacky in 18 months.
• The Ministry Apprentice – A group of would-be church planters work with, say, Andrew Heard (CCEV church planter). Each week they get a task like ‘Run an Evangelistic Dinner’ and the least successful hears ‘You’re fired’ from Andrew. Winner gets to plant CCEV’s next congregation.

Please don’t let them become reality.

We don’t know, but here it is.