Preaching
the Gospel of Jesus is the main task of every believer and follower of Christ.
We will encounter many kinds of people of different norms and culture, life
statuses, and levels of intelligence in every moment of sharing the good news
brought to us by Jesus. And in the presence of dynamic information technology
in today's generation, spreading the good news is being presented in more
creative and fancy way, and distributed very fast and connecting to the world
too easily.
But great
power has great responsibility. Everyone wants to upgrade our skills in these
technologies and embracing it, incorporating it, and becoming part of our daily
lives. Our core of sharing the Gospel of Jesus is becoming a habit of simple
explanation and message created by the author and we are agreeing only most
often. Our job to scrutinize it, study it, and understand it is now
disregarded; rather, we simply believe it to be the truth as it was revealed.
If we lost our access to all our high technologies, we are getting lost as well
in our faith.
Mostly,
these technologies are becoming popular and forgetting the core of sharing the
Gospel of Jesus. Instead of opening our bible and read it by ourselves with
asking guidance from the Holy Spirit, we mostly rely to someone else's
revelation. This attitude then reflects in our conduct to others, that is where
everyone should be worried about. Paul reminds us in Colossians 4:5-6,
"Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the
opportunities. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that
you may know how you should answer everyone."
With
technologies, the sincerity of a person sharing the Gospel of Jesus is being
hidden. The tone of voice, heart's faith, God's wisdom and revelation, and
genuine emotions are not passed to the person whom we are sharing Jesus to. If
we are true believer of Christ, we are responsible to maintain the integrity of
every word of God and His scriptures; because modifying it will not cause any
blessings at all but a curse. God is concerned more in upgrading ourselves
through Faith rather than upgrading ourselves through technologies in the very
Core of Jesus Gospel.
God bless everyone!
