The Gospel Doesn't Need to Be Hip!
One of my super cool Christian friends recently offered me some ministry advice: "I think you need to be a little more edgy in the way you communicate. I mean you want to reach our generation, don't you? Your current writing style is not going to get you very far. I kind of stopped reading your stuff a while back because . . . well it's boring, Matt. It's just Bible, Bible, Bible. What if you just loosened it up a bit by throwing in a cuss word here and there?"
I wasn't shocked. She wasn't the first cool millennial to encourage me to be a bit more spunky in the way I write about the gospel, and she won't be the last. I've been told my writing ministry would be so much more effective if I would quit being so serious and inject more of my personality and humor into my articles.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/god-doesnt-need-you-to-hipsterfy-his-gospel-165141/#h0zjmf3HHRyARjho.99
