Communicating a Message Properly

  I once heard this joke, “How many Baptists does it take to change a light bulb? – Change?!!” I laughed my head off because it is not just Baptists but people in general that are often afraid of change. We are afraid of the unknown future but comfortable in the past.

  While God’s Word and its principles never change, and we never compromise these truths with culture and its ever changing moral parameters, we do, however, have to adapt to the way we live life and how we communicate in an ever changing technological world. Principles never change but application of these principles and how we communicate them do.

  For instance, if you used Morse Code to try to communicate with everybody today, your range of people you would connect to, and communicate with would be very limited.

  What is my point? It is very simply that change can often be a very healthy thing as long as that change does not deal with God and His Truth (for that never changes). As a matter of fact, if you don’t change you will soon become irrelevant and unable to keep up with your generation and communication with it.

  We should desire to be relevant, by the way, since we have a message that is more relevant than any message that has ever been given. Yet we do not live in the same society that we lived in 50 years ago. As a matter of fact, we do not live in the same society we lived in 5 years ago. Our world is changing ever so quickly and the more time progresses the quicker it changes every day.

  The message we have will never change, but the way we reach out to people and communicate this message will often change. It has to change if you expect to reach anybody with this all important message of the gospel, which is our desire as Christians. You can’t do that in “Morse Code” today. You will reach very few if you try, and a whole world will drown in their sorrow because they never have even heard of the form of communication you are using, let alone the message itself.