Language is the medium of poets and writers. It is, in my opinion, the most powerful and effective way to communicate to others. It has the power to destroy and edify. Unfortunately, few people understand this, especially Christians.
Why is this?
I think it's because Christians are the most postmodern people I know. I know non-believers that are less postmodern than Christians. Now, I'm not saying that postmodernism is bad; on the contrary, postmodernism contains some good stuff in it for us to learn from. An example would be understanding that there is more than one perspective and many different ways Christians come to know Christ. Also, postmodernism should teach us that there is relative truth in this world and we all have different experiences to justify that regardless if we interpreted them as right or wrong.
However, many Christians are so subjective about the small, unnecessary things like traditional versus contemporary, biblical studies versus theology, Calvinism versus Arminianism, etc, that we place things in binaries and become our worst enemy. I'm not saying that theology, biblical studies, and those things are wrong, but you can't place everything in a dichotomy all the time. It's not biblical and it's wrong.
Now, I'm not trying to fix some gap between Christians and make everything right; I can't do that. But Jesus can. However, if we are supposed to be people of the Word, we need to start living like people of the Word. I think the reason why most non-believers attack or argue against Christianity (especially in the West) is because they were hurt by Christians at some point or another. If the Word of Christ is so powerful to change them and bring them to Him, why do we not let it change us and go to Him?
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