Bronze baby! Bronze!

Recently, Church Relevance.com created a list of the top 60 church blogs. The list was based on six different numerical stats (Number of sites that link to you, number of subscribers, Google page rank etc.). It included blogs from John Piper to Mark Driscoll, Christianity Today to Relevant Magazine and everyone in between. (The list is actually a great way to find great blogs like the ones mentioned above and much more. Check it out.)

Here is how Church Relevance described the list:
Regardless of how you label them, these are the world’s most popular church blogs written by many of today’s most influential church leaders, theologians, and Christ followers.

Stuff Christians Like was ranked 3rd.

That this site even made that list was pretty surprising. That it was 3rd is what the French call “ridiculous.”

But in looking at the list I realized something. That ranking isn’t just about me and what I write.

It’s also about you.

The stats that were used to build the list measure reader activity. Readers subscribing. Readers visiting. Readers linking. That’s you, not me. So what that means is not that I’m the third most influential Church blogger online, it means you are the third most influential group of Christian readers online.

So wow, you guys are awesome. I hope we can all enjoy our bronze medal.

I promise that I’m going to do everything I can to make this the best darn Christian blog ever. (See that, perfect example of today’s post about swearing. I close this post with a swear and people are probably going to run out of their front doors and sing the song “Open the Gates and Seize the Day” from the movie Newsies. Instead I said “darn” and you’re thinking, “ahh, that post was OK.”)