Relevance has more to do with the core of reality than what we think is truth. Being relevant means that you share what has mean not what is empty and isolated.
There is an opportunity before us to share truth, live truth and to lead others to truth. It all begins with what we believe is truth. Take a look around you. Examine what you are reading and what you are talking about. Then, see what others are looking at, reading and talking about and if you are a long way off from other people.
Listen in for a minute. If we don’t deal with what people are talking about, we may be left behind. The church has far too often taken that route. We have tried to make others think our thoughts or to direct society when they are already on a super highway headed in a direction we may not be headed in.
To relevant is to join them. To be relevant is to join others on their journey and guide conversations, thoughts and lives toward Jesus. That is not easy, but it is God’s call on our lives. That is being relevant.
The DaVinci Code movie opens this week. Are we Christians willing to join that highway of thought and to examine what is said in light of God’s truth? I want to challenge us to be relevant. God may use your new thoughts to put you around many people who need Him. He may allow us to make a difference in lives we never thought we would be able to influence.
As Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church, often says, irrelevance is irreverence. The Apostle Paul said, “I have become just every sort of servant there is in attempts to lead those I meet to a God-saved life.” (from The Message)
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