"Preach the gospel always. If necessary use words." ~ St. Francis of AssisiI recently read an interesting post on Because It's Possible.1 The post was about how in our culture, especially the Christian subculture, we tend to focus on our language/our words/what we say. The author suggests that we focus too much on our words and that we should focus more on our actions.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
- back A situation described in the post reminded me a lot of Traci's post from a few weeks ago.
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posted by Shannon Smith @ 1/25/2008
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Thanks for the shout out. Its true, I think... our actions speak louder than our words. I think if we focus on our actions our words will follow, but we can't forget to focus on our hearts (I think this is where it all starts).
hey shannon
i think this is a very insightful post. in america, i think our focus is often on how to communicate (or market) the message right and get people in the doors to hear it without reflecting on how the medium through which we are communicating is as big a part of the message as what we say to others.
actions and words are important, but i think people in our culture have heard a lot of hot air, and not seen enough changed hearts and lives in our actions
I've been reflecting recently on how we are usually in control of the words as christians, we expect people outside the faith to come to our turf and hear what we have to say. i think we need to take a different posture as the church toward serving, loving, and pulling out the truth of others on their turf.
if we are speaking, is anyone listening? if they are speaking, are we listening?
these are things I am processing right now.
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