Monday, February 11, 2013
Why verbalcatalyst? A question better than its answer - it was available and given the absolute flood of digital opinions, beggars cannot be choosers. Yet, even in the necessity there lies some invention. Our tweeting, texting, and posting culture churns out words in such incredible volumes that words themselves are beginning to lose power and meaning. It seems easy to give in to the trend and begin to imagine that words are poor communicators - action, action, we need action! Yet Christ is the living word, the power of God unto salvation. So words can transform, organize, and change people, environments, and contexts. We must believe, despite the effects of verbal inflation in a gratuitously gregarious culture, that we can help change the world through words. So, verbalcatalyst.
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In a sense, without words we have nothing. The very assurance of salvation through Christ is promised in words and we have no way of knowing that he lived, died and rose again without words. The reality of Jesus the God-Man has been passed down from the earliest Church Fathers to our own day through words. Actions accompany the promise and transmission but without the meaning captured in the words of the Old and New Testaments we would have no hope of knowing God or His plan for the world. I must, therefore, agree that "words can transform" people according to the will of God. I would not, however, bring the title of the "Word" into this particular discussion as the Logos is a philosophical concept turned theological, while "word" (note lowercase) is a linguistic phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteAll in all verbal inflation is great as more people develop and express thoughts on a wide array of topics, but one great difficulty is that everyone wants to write while few wish to read.