Let's take it back before I launch Posture in 2020, because we have to break the unbelief
I think some people have when they see people that have large-scale followings, whether
that's in-person ministry, online ministry, is it just happened for that person.
One day they woke up, they started sharing their message, and it just grew.
How great are they?
And the truth is, it's never suddenly.
And it wasn't suddenly for me either.
So how it started as far as online goes, when it came to me and the message that was stirring
in my heart, is I tried a lot of things for a lot of years.
How many people have tried things before?
We've tried to get the message out there.
Maybe you've tried to do blogging, you've tried to launch a podcast.
Let me know in the comments, hey, I've tried some things, and I would like to bring up
tried books, tried to write books.
Guys, I have so many unwritten books in my Word documents right now.
So in 2017, this is when I launched my first podcast, and I thought, you know what?
I'm going to talk about leadership.
I was in the leadership education space.
I was like, this is what I like to talk about.
I think I launched two episodes before I decided, well, this isn't for me, because I think my
mom and Bruce and maybe a few other people shared it, liked it, but it didn't go anywhere.
So I gave up on it.
How about those hashtag family shares?
Family shares.
My family is so supportive of me, but it just wasn't enough to keep me motivated and keep
me consistent.
So I see people said, oh, Kathy said I tried blogging.
Me too.
Not one blog.
Here's a blog.
Two blogs.
Yeah.
I was in my 20s, and I'm like, I'm going to talk about people who are doing an amazing
thing in their 20s.
So it was kind of like this journalistic style blog, and I was doing it with my friend Amelia,
and it was fun.
But then Amelia started law school.
I got married, started my own career.
Life got busy.
It kind of fizzled out.
A couple of years later, another blog.
Hey, I'm going to talk about our home remodel, and I'm going to talk about lifestyle.
And again, it fizzled out.
It just didn't go anywhere.
Xavier said...
He has three blogs.
Yeah.
Or also just reach out as a support group to any of our domain hoarders that are out
there.
How many people...
You had website ideas.
Yeah.
If you have this one domain, then people will show up.
It's meant to be.
People will just show up.
And we got 20sblog.com, and we just thought that was the coolest domain ever.
How many domains do you own?
Do you know?
I mean, there's hundreds.
There's 400 or 500.
He owns a lot of domains.
Every time we get an idea, it's like, I'll just...
In case I want this one day, we can get it.
So what was the shift for me?
What changed?
And I think it wasn't this like...
I didn't have this one angelic encounter and everything shifted, but I began to shift my
perspective of what I was actually doing online.
And the way that I can summarize that shift the best for you is I went from being a consumer
to a creator.
I would come on the online space, and I would consume.
And I would get ideas from consuming, and I would say, oh, this is what I should be
talking about.
This is how I should be talking about it.
This is what I should be addressing.
And there wasn't any real partnership for me.
I mean, I think that the Lord was having fun.
It wasn't like I was disobedient or I wasn't supposed to be trying new things.
I just wasn't engaging him in the process.
I was just like, oh, I'm going to start a blog, and if it's meant to be, he'll put his
smile on it, and it will go somewhere.
That's kind of how I was approaching it.
But really, I wasn't coming online saying, this is my mission field, and I'm going to
come on as a creator, as an initiator, as a powerful daughter of the Most High God.
I was just kind of coming in, and if something sparked my interest or if something sparked
my frustration, then I would engage with it.
I would comment with it.
But I wasn't coming in wholeheartedly, powerfully backed by the belief that when I'm here, I'm
partnering with the Lord and spreading the beauty of what life in Jesus Christ is all
about.
And that looks differently for everyone based on our testimonies and our journey with the
Lord, but that is kind of the big shift that happened for me.
I had to become a creator, not a consumer.
And some of my habits had to change, too, like how I engage with social media.
I wasn't going to come on and just scroll endlessly.
I was going to come on mission.
That's good.
And that's a very different thing.
You know, we're hearing a lot of terminology that has been the heart of our movement, and
that is this idea of leveraging the digital landscape or leveraging being an online ministry,
a mission field.
And so we think about it just the same way as if you were going, being sent to Africa
in some missions trip, right?
Or being sent to a neighborhood.
Yeah, you go on mission.
You don't just kind of browse and just whatever happens, happens.
That's that shift from going from consumer to creator, and actually showing up, and actually
starting to shift your identity to being a creator, and saying, hey, I am one who creates,
and contributes, and shares hope, and a message of the gospel online.
Yeah, absolutely. So how it's going now is Posture is reaching over 100,000 people.
And we're going to talk a little bit about that today, because we are talking about
stadium-sized audiences. So it's really exciting that two years later, that's what's taking place.