Preaching to the choir
Possibly everyone’s heard of this phrase before, and more than likely have said it at least once as well. So how does one go beyond the choir to spread the word?! I don’t mean this to the exact literal sense, but how exactly does one do that? To spread the word.
You can’t shove it down people’s throats or jam it into their memory. You can’t exactly nag on and on about it because no one likes nagging (I still do it anyway). And when people have kinda made up their minds about something, it is nearly impossible to get past that, for them and for you. How would one proceed to break the wall or open the door to reach to the other side? Have you some ideas or enlightenments to share with me?
I apologize for being too metaphorical in this post but I can’t go into details right now.
vicki Said,
November 12, 2007 @ 1:22 am
Not so sure the “word” you are are trying to spread but I guess you hope that if you feel confident in the nugget of wisdom that you have and if you feel compelled to share it , that it would be in a language that the choir has not been able to articulate or understand. Sometimes we have heard the same thing over and over but someone comes along who speaks the same message a different way and it connects. We can’t reach all but we can reach some. Rest assured, while it may seem that you are alone, that whatever the message is that you are trying to share that you are not the only one who has the same views and you may be the beginning or the ending, some are the planters, some are the sowers. You may never know the outcome, but as long as a message is shared with passion and compassion that is all that is your responsibility (with regards to my own personal faith, I believe that God is responsible for the rest).
In the matter of the message that you are trying to share, people are more reponsive to how we live than what we have to say and that can speak much louder than any words.
Amie Said,
November 12, 2007 @ 9:28 am
Live it. Words alone rarely change people, they have to see something they want to emulate or believe in action.