Okay, so let me first apologize for being so long since I wrote. So, I'm sorry. It was a long wonderful Christmas and New Year's (in Atlanta and Des Moines) and sometimes it's just hard to get out of vacation mode. I was also working on my newest website, a real estate website/blog for central Iowa. Woo Hoo. Anyway, that's done and showing good signs of success already. But fear not, on my down time I was keeping lots of notes for this blog. I've been reading A TON of good stuff about how some churches have been using technology in a new favorite magazine of mine. But more about that at another time.
My issue for today is a great idea with just the wrong context. BiblesonDVD.com has an offering that amused me at first and then saddened me. I saw a commercial on television (not sure if it was a Christian station or not) for what I thought would be a good product. Only to be saddened once I got to the site. Have you went there yet? Did you notice anything? I did. Those three old initials kept popping up. KJV. Aaahhh! Why? It's not like the church doesn't have a hard enough PR problem. (i.e. I don't understand the sentences) No one talks in KJV today. Why not a nice little version with NIV, or better yet, redo it completely in terminology that the lost of today understand?
My problem is this, if you're going for realism and going to spend all this money to make something quality, why not make it effective too. If you just want realism, take the Mel Gibson Passion of the Christ approach and do it all in the original language. I know some of you like the NKJV for the 'poeticness' (is that a word?) and flow of the scripture. But when someone is down to their last leg and at the end of their rope, they don't want poetry. They want the truth that speaks to their heart, and they want (and need) it to be understandable to them, to be able to apply it to their lives today. My feeling is this, a new believer has a hard enough time trying to make sense of all of the confusion of Christianity. Why unnecessarily further complicate things?
I could go on and on about this, but it's late and we've got plenty of time in the future to discuss this issue. Bottom line: The lost need to find the truth. And we have a responsibility to get the truth to them. Why make the task harder than it is? Be relevant in every form of ministry that you do. Make the gospel usable and applicable to the unsaved. Be transparent, let them see Christ in you. The faster they get it, the faster they start telling other people about it!
Until next time.
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