Relevant (Signposts of Heaven - Part 2)

“We try so hard to be cool.” That statement from Rick MicKinley’s book, This Beautiful Mess, really hit me. (Multnomah Books)

But you say…
“Hey! We’re relevant. We’ve got screens! We use PowerPoint! Videos!”
“We’ve got a bazillion dollar sound system. People that come to our place never need that sound wave treatment to break up kidney stones. It happens right here every Sunday.” [We don’t have a system like that. Far from it.]

We will never “out-cool” the world or “entertain” as well as the world does it. That isn’t our purpose. (This does not mean, though, that we should make it a goal to be irrelevant! That just makes us ineffective.)

Relevance comes through relationships, not programs or technical doohickeys. It happens when people see Jesus coming through us instead of us telling about Him. He is changing us to be more like Himself, and thus, we are becoming “little Jesus’” wherever we are – or at least we are supposed to be.

Here are some quotes from the book…
“Relevance is a consequence of kingdom living, not a cause.”
“Authentic relationships make us relevant”
“Love given without any other agenda is always relevant.”

Hmmm.