So it feels like the perfect time to start a brand new blog…How come? let me explain…
I’m about to take a life-changing decision which actually feels like it has already been made but as I move towards it I’m realising it’s much bigger than that decision…!
Or to put it half-way clearly – Im discovering a new vision for my life…God’s shaping it before my eyes and giving it to me…
So here’s some of my thoughts that have brought me to this point – ******************
To reach our culture for God is going to require a new language…new patterns of doing things…new stories – How are we representing God to a world that so needs Him?
Are we hiding Him in publications which sit on coffee tables in Christian homes? Are we concealing His stories in radio broadcasts which only religious heavy-heads tune into? How are we telling this world about a God who is so in love with its people?
Matthew 10:14-16 –
You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! …
I no longer want to spend my life churning out stories deemed by society to be ‘news’, I don’t want to keep filling the world up with extra negative words – when it’s Life that we really could do with.
What if we could capture examples of God-activity on this earth, translate them into stories and DVDs and pictures and movies? And what if we could excite regular people about God by filtering these stories into the mainstream media? What if the consumers of these newspapers, radio shows or television news could catch even a glimpse of the Creator’s dynamism and beauty?
I feel the tug of God on my heart to go and be a part of this – to find and represent these stories of what He’s up to…to get people wondering and talking…and leave the headline writers scratching their heads…
