This weekend I'm at the Reach Innovative Media Conference in Dallas. I heard Ed Young from Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, speak on creativity.

"You got it; Now use it. You got it; now use it," he said over and over and over ... God unleashes the creativity in our lives.

I've been thinking about what to do with this all night. Every now and then I'm known to have a creative idea — something that has never been seen in my workplace, something that might turn heads for the power of Christ, not for my glory.

Young said creativity means consistently being inconsistent. For the messages of Christianity to resonate, we need to shock — keep people on the edges of their seats wanting more when it's over.

There is such a desire inside of me to have this kind of creativity. I want to break through the thick, tough, ugly walls of traditionalism and embrace, the dare I say it, post-modern world. Depending on which definition you look at for post-modernism, it's not a bad concept. In my little world, I know many who scream at the near mention of the word. My definition of post-modernism may be a little different than some of my co-workers and brothers and sisters.

Post-modernism to me simply means the life following modernism. What does that mean? I don't know. It just means culture is changing. That's OK. Change is good. I heard someone say today that my generation would rather watch R-rated truth than G-rated lies.

I just know that we Christians in the media world need to break out of the parameters of what we think works for "Christian" media. Let's break out of the "Christian" box. Let's be successful. Let God unleash our creativity.