Speaking Jesus in an Information-blasted World

You can see just about anything on TV these days. I'm on Facebook and Pinterest almost every day. When I do research for sermons where there used to be one, maybe two websites dedicated to Biblical interpretation, there are now literally hundreds (I stopped counting after 400) of websites to read. My inbox is filled up with messages demanding my attention. I'm overwhelmed and I feel like I can't keep up with all this STUFF. Blogs, instagram, current research on church leadership and church growth, and current scholarship on the Bible, including archaeological finds and anthropological studies. I feel like I'm barely treading water. Yet, I want to do the best I can to be an accurate interpreter of the Bible, a well-read person and the best pastor I can be. So, what's a pastor to do ?
That train of thought made me think about how we communicate the gospel in this information saturated age. Church specialists tell us we have to have a web site, AND a Facebook page, AND a twitter account, AND the latest research is that most young adults are on instagram and tumblr.  So I faithfully keep up with as much as I can there. Still, I think the best way of giving the good news of Jesus to the world is through one-on-one contact. People don't just automatically look for the church on the web, Facebook, or other social media. There are many who are disillusioned with the church, and have left on purpose. There are many for whom the church is a foreign concept. We must step up, my friends in Christ, to the challenge to "Go, and make disciples of all nations..." How?
Our demeanor must be Christlike all the time. So, when we're cut off in traffic, dealing with an inept employee, or standing in line at the grocery store, we must ooze the Gospel from our very pores NO MATTER WHAT! It doesn't matter to God if we meet someone antagonistic, mean or unreasonable. We must still "Love the Lord [our] God with all [our] heart, mind, soul, and strength, AND love [our] neighbors as [we] love [ourselves.]" We lead the way in agreeing to disagree with only love and respect for the other. We lead the way in being the first to apologize, even if we feel we did nothing wrong. (Something about "turning the other cheek" comes to mind!) We are the first to give up our "rights" for the good of the Gospel and the Body of Christ, his church. Is it better to be right, or to be holy? In the words of Han Solo in Star Wars, "Let the Wookie win!" Because as a matter of fact, we don't know it all. In fact, we see only dimly (I Corinthians 13:9, 12). All we have to offer is Christ, and him crucified, dead, and resurrected. As my preaching professor used to say, "Speak a good word for Jesus."
So, instead of all those info sources that "have" to be read, I need to focus on all those human beings that "need" to be loved. I tell myself all the time, "Speak a good word for Jesus, and leave the rest to God." No debating the agnostics or athiests. Just gentle loving manners and holy living before them, and kind words and actions toward them. And if we feel like we're being picked on because we're Christians, just remember...Jesus was crucified for the way he lived. The disciples were persecuted. Believers were thrown into the coliseum with lions. You think you've got it bad? Thank God that you are only being verbally persecuted! We are still called and equipped to go out in the name of Jesus and make disciples of all the world!
As I go about my life this week, I'm going to intentionally focus on keeping the main thing the main thing - Jesus is love and wants me to love in his name.