echoes of redemption | steven dilla

I’ll be the first to admit this could be a non sequitur of a post… but I’ve got to throw it out there: blogospheric negativity is a disease that rots the internet. And for some reason, it is near pandemic levels on “Christian” blogs.

I read a decent amount of blogs, and try to check out a new 5-10 blogs a week. It is amazing to me how many Christians have blogs where they post negatively. Toward other Christians. Toward the world. Toward global warming. You name it, you can probably find a Christian’s blog that’s negative about it.

I try to stay overwhelmingly positive when I talk about things on my blog - but here it is, my most negative post yet - I’m going negative on negativity.

• There are few things that waste a Christian’s energy more than negativity. The energy we spend thinking of ways to destroy people verbally is robbed from our calling to bring restoration to the world.
• More often than not our negativity breeds other’s negativity. Instead of building the body of Christ, we tear it down.
  
• Negativity usually is trying to isolate a person or group of people - yet it almost always isolates the negative person. Don’t get me wrong, negative people tend to move in herds. But the downward spiral of negativity in their group has so cut them off from reality, they are clueless to what is really happening.
  

Instead of going negative:

• Use your passion for an issue to drive you into positive action to fix that issue. Turn what could be useless venting into forward motion for a solution.
• Spread positivity like it’s a plague. Find the solution to your problem - God put it on your heart for a reason - and passionately back it.
• Surround yourself with positive people who want to make a difference in the world, not just point out problems.