Christian Writing - Explaining God & His Bible With Words ~ Jimmy Hall

As Christians, we rightly read the Bible and strive to know it like scholars. This is generally a good thing, right? Well, it should be. The problem is that we so often get to know the book, but not the author! The idea is for the Bible to lead us to a closer walk with God. The Bible is about Jesus Christ.

Many of us can explain God & His Bible with words in our Christian writing, without too much knowing Him. That's right. There is a huge difference in knowing the Bible versus knowing God. One is the Creator and Lord of the Universe, the Other is the Holy Word (Picture and Embodiment of Christ) and Principles of that Universe spoken by Him to His Creation.

The task of the Christian writer's writing should be to help readers know God better, and NOT just things about Him. So often we forget that in the scheme of things books are a new thing. 

Up until the invention of the printing press, Scripture was not in such available circulation. Sure, there were scrolls in the old days and handwritten copies a bit later, yet packages of Scripture were simply not in every home or even every neighborhood in the past.

When Christians of old worshipped, they actually communed with God and not just His Book. They prayed and knew the Bible from memorization of it, when they were fortunate enough to see it. In the old days the Holy Scriptures were cherished and loved and considered to be a gift. Now, they are "just the Bible," to many people - even Christians.

The task of modern Christian writers should be to expose the Person of God, as best we can, while admitting that our best descriptions still fall far short of His grandeur and holiness. We should facilitate better relationships with our Lord! Jesus Christ is everything.

To make this easy to understand, think about Literature and authors. To learn Hemingway or Twain, we do not just read their works, but also study their lives which are also reflected amid their works. Reading is not enough, meditation and study are required.

Christian writers must be a means for people to get to the Creator Himself, to become acquainted with Him, and not to just know about Him.....  ~ Jimmy Hall, HJimmy577@aol.com 

Writing About God/Jesus: Christian Writing & Christian Writers ~ Jimmy Hall (404-580-1501)

I am a writer, in that I make a living doing business plan writing, web content writing, resume writing, blog writing, other business consulting, and selling the occasional pieces of literature/short stories or columns/articles. However, like most Christians, my heart feels fondest doing and freely distributing Christian writing and Christian-related information whenever and wherever I can. So far, so good - right? Maybe.

Friends, writing about God/Jesus is an extremely challenging task. Why? Once something is written and shared it can never totally be taken back - even if you later find that parts of it were wrong. Understand? Once a piece is carefully researched and crafted and shared, new insights sometimes come around making Christian writers wish that certain parts had never been written. 

Obviously, everyone knows that this happens, but guess what? God still holds writers accountable for our words and actions, and the effect and consequences they have upon others - and the light they shed on our Holy God Himself. Scripture says that teachers are more accountable than others, and when a writer is writing he or she is also teaching and explaining.

The task of Christian writing is further complicated by the fact that no matter how well of a job we do of praising and sharing the grace, mercy, love, hate, long-suffering, wrath, righteousness, nature, heart, and mind of God, we can never do Him justice - NEVER. His holiness is beyond comprehension. His justice is absolute, whether it be in loving or hating, healing or killing.

God is far more glorious and greater than our mere human words could ever present. In that sense we are also accountable. We are unworthy of the subject about which we write, apart from the precious blood of Jesus Christ, and His sacrifice for those that believe.

Yes, we Christian writers are a strange lot. We write constantly about a subject that becomes more complex the more we study about IT. Writing about God must be done reverently and carefully. Motives must be analyzed. It is extremely easy to write about the Bible and Christianity without God the Father even being in a particular piece. Our writing must demonstrate that we know God too, and not just ABOUT God.

~ Jimmy Hall / Jimmy Hall Writing Services (404-580-1501).

Jimmy/MS/BBA