Tell it often, tell it well
Communication is a tricky business. We often are attempting to hit a moving target. Words seem to disappear into thin air, and we wonder if they have touched the listener’s heart. Hendrik Kraemer asks some tough questions of the Christian communicator: “Where and how do I live? In a ghetto or in living contact with the world? Does the world listen when I speak to it, and if not, why not? Am I really proclaiming the gospel, or am I not? Why has such a wall of separation risen between the world and what I must stand for? Do I know the world in which people live, or do I not … How can I find a way to speak again with relevancy and authority, transmitting ‘the words of eternal life’ entrusted to me?” These are disturbing questions for the conscientious communicator. How can we begin to get a handle on the skill of Communicating Christ to an ever changing audience that is often typified by spiritual misconceptions and apathy toward the issues of the gospel?
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