It is no secret that we live in an information world. The access to information is growing by leaps and bounds with every passing day. A survey released in December reports there are more than 74 million web sites online, while in 1993 only 130 web sites existed online. Millions of new web pages are created every day with more zeroes and ones proliferating the knowledge plane. But is more better?
Inputting information into a computer does
nothing unless the
information can be accessed or applied. The same is true for us. Information access is no longer a problem. Our knowledge cups runneth over. But how accessible is the
good information? Is it stored in a safe place? And more importantly, can you apply it?
Information can lead to discoveries, but
it takes transformation to change the world. And true transformation means being willing to
think differently,
to act differently and to
relate to my world differently. NewSong's journey that we are embarking on has much less to do with information than transformation.This Sunday I am going to call our entire church to participate in a weeklong fast (more on this Sunday). I am asking everyone to begin to
prepare their hearts for transformation.
James writes in chapter 1 "Do not merely
listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.
Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately
forgets what he looks like."
We were created in his image. When we read Scripture, when we hear a message on Sunday applying Scripture to our lives, what do we do with this? Transformation is
listening to the word,
reading the word and then
applying it to our lives. Then it becomes more than information and the image of who we are
AND where we are going becomes that much clearer.
