Article October 8, 1984 Issue

Messages that heal

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

In this age when words and pictures bounce off orbiting satellites, it's tempting to pay more attention to the technique and style of communicating than to the substance. Invariably, that's a frustrating temptation, because we eventually are turned toward the fact that it is always the heart of a message that matters most.

Despite all the flair and aggressive persuasion we run into, the worldliness that so many of the messages reaching into our lives have been dipped in, there are increasing signs that many people are looking for deeper purposes to share and more caring messages to dispatch.

If you've studied Scripture even a little, you've long since discovered that the major purpose of the Bible is, in fact, communication, the communication of God's Word to humanity. God speaks to us through the teachings of Christ Jesus and through the inspired perception of the Master's followers and of the men and women of the Old Testament.

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