Bible as Glossy - Boing Boing

Bible as Glossy - Boing Boing

I attended the 9:45am service. Pastor Nick shared about how we are one generation away from a faith-less society. He challenged me to know God better and to share what God has done for me with others.

In fact, you can read Psalm 107 to read how to testify of God's deep love. Note the repeated theme, "Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He brought them, delivered them, saved them, out of their distresses." You can be distressed. God can save you. You can be troubled. God can deliver you. You can be stressed-out. God can save you. I can shout, "Amen!," for God's love is deep. He can save. He saved me.

As a Christ-follower, I can tell the world about it. "All of us set free by God, tell the world (Psalm 107:2)!" "Tell the world what he's done--sing it out! (verse 21)" It is time to appreciate God's deep love (verse 43).

You can read about God's deep love in the Bible. In fact, there is a project to make the Bible more relevant, more chic, more accessible to this new generation. Using the Good News Translation provided by the American Bible Society, the Book New Testament is preparing to launch in the U.S. imminently.

I find it intriguing that men want to get the Bible into the hands of new readers within a different medium, a more relevant format. Part of me views this endeavor as a tool while another part of me winches that this may be a vice, diluting the words of Scripture.

You need to think hard about this with me. Is making the Bible relevant to the world most important? Or is making God Himself relevant to the world more important?

The Bible reveals who God is. The reader will need to come to the crossroads at some point. God's gift of salvation will confront each reader. I wonder how christians will use this as a tool rather than relegate it as a travesty. I wonder what you think. Join the discussion here or at boing boing (where the discussion travels far and wide).

I wonder how to answer an anonymous post, Is "the medium the message?" If God's Word is holy, then what medium conveys His holiness? If the words of God is primary, then does it matter what the visual medium portrays?

Please give me your thoughts.