Transitory Psychosis

Matthew Henry

Last night, as I faced a rather thorny biblical passage, I searched several books for an answer. I finally found it in Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. When I was placing the book back on the shelf I thought once again, “Matthew, my brother, the English-speaking part of the body of Christ owes you a great debt.” Henry died in 1714, nearly three centuries ago. In the providence of God, He left a written work that is still in use today.
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Here’s a basic rule of communication: What matters is not what you said but what I heard. To put it another way, we haven’t really communicated until the listener has actually heard what we meant for him or her to hear. (The same is true when it comes to the written word.) When the listener (or reader) hears something we didn’t mean, the result can be quite different than what we intended.
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Perhaps the greatest challenge I face as the editor of teen Bible study curriculum is finding writers. Frankly, it’s a maddening task that results in more misses than hits. We use several different types of writers for our curriculum.

Magazine article writers are perhaps the easiest to find. In fact, most of them come to us. Our two teen magazines, CLEAR Direction and CLEAR Horizon include as many teen-written articles as possible–testimony, fiction, personal experience, reporting, book reviews, etc. We also use occasional freelance submissions from adults and assign a few articles to adults. Honestly, finding these writers is not too terribly difficult. Especially not for me, since my assistant takes care of it.
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