Patrikin – Kinship through The Father

Garrison Keillor

NOW is another wonderful opportunity – think about it!

The Gospel spread like wildfire in part because of a new worldwide communication platform — Koine (common) Greek. Even those whose native tongue was something else wrote the Bible in a language everyone in the known world could read. Barriers were stripped and the Word of God held its own in the public arena!

Now, there’s another worldwide communication platform — the internet!

Barriers are removed and the Word of God (and every other word) can permeate even severely restricted societies.

Garrison, Keillor, long time author and professional communicator, put it this way,

“We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numerals (U R 2 1derful), blogging like crazy, reading for hours off their little screens, surfing around from Henry James to Jesse James to the epistle of James to pajamas to Obama to Alabama to Alanon to non-sequiturs, sequins, penguins, penal institutions, and it’s all free, and you read freely, you’re not committed to anything the way you are when you shell out $30 for a book, you’re like a hummingbird in an endless meadow of flowers.”

To some this is a bad thing. Garrison go on tho say,

“And if you want to write, you just write and publish yourself. No need to ask permission, just open a website…. And if you want to write a book, you just write it … the future of publishing [is] 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives …”¹

But it’s, really, a good thing for the Gospel! If every 14 believers reached 14 more, calculate the results!

So, dear 14 readers (Hello uncle Bussy, aunt Jan, uncle Tom, aunt Carol, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandkids, in-laws, outlaws, and my dear personal friends!), seize the day’s opportunity, share Christ, there’s nothing to stop you except you!

– fritz

1. The Old Scout, A Prairie Home Companion, May 25th 2010