News We Can Use!
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesDo we believe everything we read in the newspapers? What about the information given on TV news or radio talk shows?
A Roper survey showed that even though Americans overwhelmingly (80 percent) believe that the press is essential to a free society, only 2 percent believe everything a newspaper reporter tells them.
For TV news anchors, the trust level is only at 5 percent. And for radio talk-show hosts, that figure drops to 1 percent. Justified or not, it seems that we don’t trust our news sources.
There is one news source, however, that will pass the test of 100-percent reliability. It’s the biblical record of the “good news” of Jesus Christ (Acts 13:26-39 NIV). Delivered by men whose words were inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Bible has been safeguarded from error (2 Peter 1:21). It is the absolute truth (John 17:17) about man, God (Isaiah 45:5-6,14,18), sin (1 John 3:4), and salvation (Acts 4:10-12).
King David wrote about the reliability of God’s Word. In Psalm 19, he called God’s law perfect, His testimony sure, and His judgments “true and righteous altogether” (Psalm 19:7,9).
But even more important than revering God’s Word, we must learn it and live it! Read the Gospels, pore over the Epistles, ponder the Psalms and the Prophets. The Bible has news we can trust and news we can use!
Conclusion:
The following is a poem from an unknown author that expresses our need for God’s word:
“O God, in whom our trust we place,
We thank You for Your Word of grace;
Help us its precepts to obey,
Till we shall live in endless day.”
The Bible – Read it through; Apply its truths; Teach it to others!