Does Your Christian Distinctive Set You Up for Success These Days?
No matter the occupation, skill, or talent, what sets some apart from others these days is having a Christian distinctive.
Today, everyone is looking for something different, authentic, and refreshing. If you genuinely follow Christ, those distinctions will automatically shine through in your interaction with clients and co-workers and your creative endeavors.
As a freelance writer, I’ve noticed an increasing desire for publishers to find writers willing to provide content that boldly exhibits conservative views on almost any topic. Even secular entities are tired of the ultra-liberal views and long for refreshing content that points readers to alternative views.
One secular magazine said, “We’re looking for a back-to-basics, 1950s kind of viewpoint … something that reminds us of Mayberry and your grandma’s apple pie.”
Writers with a strong moral compass and brawny backbone are needed more than ever. And in the face of so many liberal values seeping into the church, even Christian publishers and literary agents are looking for meatier content that off-sets all the worldly, “enlightened” ideals that come across their desks. They are weary of it. Well, many of them … not all.
God has gifted each of us with a message. He has written, so I write — not to eclipse God’s words but to point to Christ as the hope of the world. I want to make the world curious with my restorative views contrasting this dark world.
God is speaking and if we’re listening, then we too will have something to say, write, dance, or paint. If our words of teaching, reproving, correcting, and training go mute, then we forfeit our opportunity to be salt and light to the world.
I never want to be “like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 2:17)
It’s time for conservative artists to give the world hope through our writing, music, artwork, and other creative activities. It’s time for staff and employees (tradesmen and white-collar) to offer Jesus by shining like a lighthouse on the dark sea of confusion and desperation.
What will you do today to offer something better than the world? What Christian distinctive will you produce–at work or leisure–that entices people to breathe deep from the well of biblical truth?
Set yourself apart from the rest. Go ahead, I dare ya!
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