A weird thing has happened here at my blog this past week. Over 20 people unsubscribed from getting the blog posts via email. Now, for bloggers who have thousands of subscribers, that’s probably a typical day. But for a guy with much smaller numbers, it represents a significant amount of people. It has me wondering why so many picked this past week to leave the blog.
After all, it’s not like I posted a lot last week. I had two posts. Neither was all that offensive or challenging. Anyway, it has me shaking my head in confusion.
I could try and be all spiritual and suggest that even Jesus has people hit the “unsubscribe” button. John 6:60–71 tells the story of people being offended by Jesus’ teaching. In the end, many turned away and left him. Jesus response was to turn to the Twelve and ask if they are going to leave also. Peter responds by asking, “Where would we go? You have the words of eternal life.” Smart man, that Peter. So, yes, I could look to Jesus as comfort for all these unsubscribers and thank him for walking the same path as I am now experiencing. But, that would be silly, foolish, ridiculous … right?
To be honest, I think I know why people are moving on from the blog. Those who have followed me long enough know that I have wrestled with how to use this blog. At times, the primary focus of it was my experience as a biker preacher. Other times, I used the blog to just share personal stories from the homefront. These days, I’m focusing more on having the blog be an extension of the two churches I’m pastoring. I like where it’s at these days and feel good moving forward that it’s the right focus … at least for now.
Still, no one likes to see so many unfollow. I could suggest that you’d make me feel a lot better if you would recommend the blog to a few friends. But, that would be grovelling, right? So, I wont do that.
So, instead, let me ask you: How do you deal with rejection?
