For me, the importance of communicating to “my generation” of the 70’s & 80’s was music. When I first became a believer, I was listening to bands such as Kansas (which for a believer, this band is a whole subject unto itself), Styx, Boston, Foreigner & Journey. Christian music had nothing that could compete with these “world-class” musical acts in my eyes, or ears, as the case may be.

Until one day, a friend bought me an album by a group called Resurrection Band.
The album was called Colours“. 

Granted, “world-class” is not what you would use to describe a fledgling Chrisitian act , but this band was like nothing I had ever experienced out of “Christianity”; I was instantly hooked.

]The media drew me in from the musical style all the way to the album cover so Colours really was my first exposure of Christianity using a medium that caught my eye:

Obvious to me now, the seed was planted then so that this medium could be used to communicate the important message of CHRIST’s enduring love to all of my friends. I was never one to go up to a person and say, “Hey, like, dude, you need to receive JESUS“, so this music was very useful to me. Many times I could be heard saying,”Listen to this cool album!” and discussions would naturally follow. The use of current media to show CHRIST became a desire in me.

My point is this: Now that this desire has begun to bear some fruit, I can see in hindsight what was not easily seen in the beginning: Media is an excellent tool for the church to use to teach the message of JESUS to the “unchurched” and “churched” alike.

…And, all this just when I was thinking time had passed me by, that I was too old for use in the kingdom of GOD, and how cool it would be to live as a hermit lying in a hammock in my own backyard…

Hmm……the LORD really knows how we are wired, doesn’t HE?….