1 Corinthians 1:17

"God didn't send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn't send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center—Christ on the Cross—be trivialized into mere words.." -1 Corinthians 1:17 (MSG)

God does not call us collect followers of ourselves. God does not call us to recruit followers of specific ministries or churches either. He sends us to speak in actions and words the unshakable truth that is Jesus Christ.

So often we clutter the story of Jesus with elaborate dissections of scriptures, parables and all of our cute attempts at apologetics. Paul tells us that this distracts our audience from the truth!

We obviously need to discern how quickly and in what manner to explain these things to new believers, but we should not dilute. If we dilute anything by contemporizing it, we "empty the power of the cross."