How you say what you say is almost as important as what you say. Your medium matters.
You may be right and speak the truth, but your message is tainted because of your attitude.
You may be right and speak the truth, but your lifestyle behind closed doors blanches the life out of your message.
Over the years, I have been asked, “What do you think about what ____ said?” And often, over the years, my response has been, “I agree with ____ 100%, but not with the demeanor by which he chose to speak.”
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a nosy gong or clanging cymbal” (1 Cor 13:1).
No more noise. No more clang.
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver” (Prov 25:11).
Be more fitly.
The world is watching and listening. The Church is watching and listening. A younger generation is watching the what and how of your model–and they’ll reproduce it.
You may be right and speak the truth, but what I hear does not look like gold set in silver.
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