Subject to Change
A few months ago I started a blog in Portuguese to which I have steadily added more posts. Everything I’ve written has been an attempt to inspire believers to view life from a biblical perspective. I would receive an email with blatantly bad theology, sent to me by a well-meaning albeit misinformed Christian, and I felt it was important to evaluate the reasons why that material shouldn’t circulate in our midst. Other times I had read a good book and wanted to share it. Once I was just excited to have met Lou Priolo, and thought I’d share–plugging his works, over course.
Each time I posted something, I thought, “You know, some English speakers might be interested in this information,” but I didn’t go much further than that thought. Well, today is different. I’m going to try to make every post bilingual, so I started this English side of my blogging world. I imagine some days I will get a thought in my head in English and offer a translation in Portuguese on the other blog, or, like today, I’ll get an idea in Portuguese, and offer this blog’s readership an English version. I might even go back and translate older posts, if someone shows an interest in them.
We’ll see where it goes from here.
About the names: in Portuguese, my blog is simply, “Pastor Kiko: sã doutrina. sem enrolação.” “Kiko” was my childhood nickname, which no one uses these days except those who knew me then, but I got to where I liked it, and it is memorable. The subtitle plays on the similar sounds of “sã” and “sem” which are, respectively, “sound” and “without.” The idea is that I plan to offer “sound doctrine, without beating around the bush.”
In English the title was a happy accident. I realized the Portuguese title wouldn’t work, so I was trying to think of something witty and cool (you know, fear of man issues and acceptance and all that), and since I couldn’t come up with anything at first, I figured I’d put “Insert Title Here.” Then I noticed that the instructions said I could change the title as much as I wanted, and “Subject to Change” popped in my mind, and I realized it’s a great way to describe our daily Christian walk. Hopefully, we are all subject to change, and willing to do so to become more like Christ.
