Some Terrible News

I have some terrible news to share with you.

It’s awful. Tragic. Horrendous. Unbelievable.

As Charles Barkley would say, “That’s turrible, just turrible.”
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OK—so, here’s the bad news: we are completely obsessed with bad news.

Bad news captures our attention.

Bad news owns the headlines.

Bad news gets airtime.

Bad news travels quickly.

We get drawn toward the negative.

Car accidents that aren’t blocking traffic still cause traffic jams because everyone slows down for a good look.

When someone says, “Did you hear…?” chances are, whatever they’re about to tell you is a bad report.

There’s never a shortage of bad news because we live in a bad news world.

However, we are called by God to be different.

We need to stand out—not blend in.

Jesus, speaking to his disciples, said, “Among you it will be different.” (Mark 10.43)

We aren’t bad news people!

We’re good news people in a bad news world.

Our story is different, our message is different—it’s full of good news.

As Christians, our gig isn’t reporting all the bad news—leave that to CNN (Continuous Negative News).

Our deal is announcing good news!

Here’s a quick refresher of our good news message:

God is for you. He’s on your side. He loves you and he’ll never stop loving you.

He is patient, kind and generous. He forgives.

He cares. He knows. He understands.

He’s the God of second chances.

And there is grace for you.

Yup… we’re good news people and we’ve got some announcing to do!