TRUTH IS IRRELEVANT.
Truth doesn’t change because of relevance. Truth is truth. Culture can be relevant. Truth is contextual.
One day my son Benjamin asked me a question that I believe was the catalyst for a change in my own thinking. About Benjamin, he’s a deep thinker. He was only nine when he asked me this. He was reading in Exodus and he came upon the place where Moses is turned aside by the burning bush. Just as Moses is about to walk into his life changing encounter, God told him to stop and of all things, take off his shoes. “Why did he do that, Dad? Why did God ask him to take off his shoes?”
God was asking Moses to place himself at His mercy, to have complete faith in His motive. That translates beautifully in the life of a believer. When you really scrutinize what it means to have faith, it’s also about making yourself vulnerable.
The fact that God told Moses to take off his shoes was irrelevant to the Hebrew slaves the night they were fleeing Egypt, even though it was true. Why, because it was out of context. The truth here didn’t have to be relevant, it had to be contextual.
If we are going to express the truth of God’s word today, it won’t be because we change it to make it relevant, truth doesn’t have to be relevant, in fact most people are getting tired of the watered down stuff we’re pumping out today.
