If you know much about me at all, you know that WorshippingOne was my handle on BigChurch.com–the web site where David (WorshipGuitar2) & I met. Back in 2006 when we were active on the site, you didn’t have to be a member of BigChurch in order to view a blog/post.
So, in September, 2007 when David & I produced our DVD–appropriately entitled, Our Amazing Story–we added a “page” at the end letting people know how to access my BigChurch blog–in particular, my Our Amazing Story posts.
Since then, we’ve given away at least 300 of our Our Amazing Story DVDs…and we’re still giving them away! (If you’d like one, just let me know and I’ll send you one. We’ll even pay the postage!)
When I was actively blogging there, I had maybe 100-200 views per post, and was quite happy with that. When I checked recently, however, I was shocked when I saw that Our Amazing Story posts were up to almost 1500 views! Now that’s truly amazing!
It’s also why I was so disappointed to discover that BigChurch has changed it so that non-members can no longer click on any links once they are in the site. This means the instructions I put on our DVD, telling people how to get to my posts, will only get them to the index. Once there, however, they won’t be able to open any of my posts! (I learned from a former BigChurch blogger that people can do a Google search and still get to a blog there in spite of the software changes if they know the BigChurch user id and blog name. However, you can’t actually open any posts, which means you’re limited to viewing the last few posts published, and you’re not able to view any of the comments.)
Major Bummer! {insert heavy sigh here.}
So, I prayed about the dilemma. Then, not long ago while going through some old emails, I just happened to run across a link to one of my BigChurch posts and thought, hmmm…I wonder if this might actually work. Sure enough, not only did it open right up, it even showed all the comments, too! Hallelujah! {Insert happy dance here.}
What I learned from that little accidental discovery is that non-members of BigChurch can still view the full posts, including the comments, as long as the posts are accessed via the older format paths (links). Once there, if you’re not signed in you still can’t click on anything to access related links. But, hey, if needed, I can just create additional links to posts that are cross-referenced within my posts.
Back in March (2010), I created a new blog on blogspot called WorshippingOne – The Next Chapter. The description in the header and the first post (No Longer An Audience of One) explain what I set out to do with that blog.
Since then, however, and for multiple reasons, I have decided to do all my blogging here and abandon the blogspot blog. I’m also not sure how many of those original BigChurch blog posts I’m going to link to or comment on here. And now that I’ve learned how to create pages here (ex. My Story), I may decide to share some of those posts that way, probably under an Our Amazing Story tab.
So, stay tuned…because this blog is still very much under construction! 
