Making your message relevant

Jim Wallis and Jon Stewart are such a great combination…

Wallis was on the Daily Show Wednesday night talking about his new book, “Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street.”

(watch the video on Hulu)

Wallis and Stewart talk briefly about Haiti and suffering…

“It would seem there are a lot of quotes there (in Scriptures) that would provide comfort not only to Haiti but to our country as well.” – Jon Stewart

“The God I believe in is with those who suffer, he doesn’t punish those or create evil for those who are already suffering. Haiti was a collision of poverty and an earthquake.”

Wallis also suggests that the U.S. banks should offer the same grace to their customers as the U.S. taxpayers offered to them — and then after saying his family has fired their bank, he offered this advice:

“The banks say they’re too big to fail – let’s make them smaller.”

Yet, even with those great ideas, what I love most about this interview is Jon Stewart’s comments towards the end…

“It certainly an interesting way to apply your theology to day to day problems and do it in a practical way that people understand.”

Making your message relevant to people and their day to day situations?

…hmmmmm.

Wonder what Tripp Fuller would say about this? Making theology practical and useful for people…

How would you do that?