Today in the One Year Bible, we read from 2 Timothy 4:1-22. Paul is urging Timothy to continue teaching the people where he lives, and to do it with patience and love. "Correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching."
We have the same instructions today. But the cool thing is we don't have to be in the same room as the person we're teaching, correcting, rebuking, or encouraging. We don't have to be in the same town, the same country, or even on the same planet. Through the amazing power of the internet, we can have daily conversations with people from everywhere (including the space station). We have a whole new means of communication, brand new avenues of correspondence that allow us to touch the hearts and minds of all people everywhere.
So the message changes, too, right? No. Same message. Paul's advice is as timely and true today as it was almost 2000 years ago when he wrote it. In your email, your tweets, your FB conversations, "correct, rebuke, and patiently encourage your people with good teaching."
New media. Same message.
God, thanks for all of the cool new things - and for the things that remain the same.
1 comment:
Amen
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