Why We Speak

More than believers in any other god, more than adherents to any other faith, we have reason to speak. We speak because God has spoken. Think of the way Scriptures belittles the gods of other nations—stumps of wood and chunks of rock that have mouths carved or painted on them. These are gods you may be able to see but ones that have never spoken. Yet we serve a God who has spoken and who has spoken clearly. His words brought the world into being; his words bring life to the hardened heart; his words bless and sustain us; his words are powerful; his words command us not to be silent but to speak. And so we speak of who he is and of what he has done. We speak what God has spoken and because he has spoken. We are to be the speaking followers of the speaking God.

—Tim Challies, The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion