Truthiness
I just saw that the word truthiness was named word of the year.
I love making up words so I immediately loved this word. I guess Comedy Central satirist, Stephen Colbert, gets credit for the word. He defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."
As Christ followers, our truth does come from a book--The Book. But it's got to get into our gut. In too many instances, we've embraced the truth intellectually. But we need to embrace it emotionally as well. It's been said that the longest distance is the twelve inches from your head to your heart. It's even further to your gut. But once the truth gets in your gut look out.
People of conviction don't just know the truth. They ooze the truth. I honestly believe that one person with one conviction will make more of a difference than a thousand people who know a thousand things. The height of our influence will be determined by the depth of our convictions.
For what it's worth, one of the things that attracted people to Jesus was his truthiness.
Check out Matthew 7:28. It says the crowds were amazed at his teaching because he taught as one who had authority. He taught from his gut.
Jesus wasn't just The Truth. He was The Truthiness.
I love making up words so I immediately loved this word. I guess Comedy Central satirist, Stephen Colbert, gets credit for the word. He defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."
As Christ followers, our truth does come from a book--The Book. But it's got to get into our gut. In too many instances, we've embraced the truth intellectually. But we need to embrace it emotionally as well. It's been said that the longest distance is the twelve inches from your head to your heart. It's even further to your gut. But once the truth gets in your gut look out.
People of conviction don't just know the truth. They ooze the truth. I honestly believe that one person with one conviction will make more of a difference than a thousand people who know a thousand things. The height of our influence will be determined by the depth of our convictions.
For what it's worth, one of the things that attracted people to Jesus was his truthiness.
Check out Matthew 7:28. It says the crowds were amazed at his teaching because he taught as one who had authority. He taught from his gut.
Jesus wasn't just The Truth. He was The Truthiness.
1 Comments:
Careful here. While you're right about Colbert's "official" definition of the word, as a satirist he means something else. Truthiness is actually Colbert's scathing commentary on the state of US political figures' interpretation of pre-war intelligence, among other things. Truthiness is a word that Colbert embodies as he sarcastically targets what he sees as modern-day political pharisees. I wouldn't ever want Jesus to be associated with Colbert's truthiness...there's too much room in that word for the truth to be "misinterpreted."
If Colbert knew that Jesus was being called "The Truthiness," he'd probably sarcastically praise the association with the subliminal message being an all-out assault on blind faith.
I used to think Colbert was a political genious. Now I know he is because he actually came up with a joke Pastor Mark didn't get.
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