Phil cooke recently blogged on his site about engaging the community interacting

“Think of a world that’s experiencing a two-way conversation instead of the traditional one-way model. The next generation wants to communicate, and are using media that’s “always on.” As a result, they want to participate – to have a voice. After all, they grew up picking the next “American Idol” by texting into a cell phone. They want a voice and they want it now. And it will impact everything from media to how they experience worship”

Part of engaging the community involves giving people definitions and not explanations. A definition is short and concise, where as an explanation is longer more through explained story, and it just so happens that an explanation takes more of time. Now that God is shortening time, as a society we are not in a positon to hear and explanation, we just need to hear the definition.