Acts 17:21
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
We should be using our God-given creativity to find new ways to state old truths, not finding ourselves in the old habit of creatively stating new truths about God.
Newness is not in itself a good thing. The goodness of the newness depends on what it declares to have replaced. New and improved are not synonymous no matter how often we hear them pronounced man and wife by the marketing department.
Preachers, God has given us the task of employing our time, talents, passions and personalities to convey His timeless, limitless, perfectly sufficient Gospel. Do not fall into the time-honored tradition of finding fault with His declaration and inventing new and improved, better news. No, we are called to declare the old-fashioned, Good News.
We are not filling in God's gaps. The old news is where the power lies, not, even necessarily, in a new way of saying it.
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