Dead or alive?

Is the Word of God really alive? If so, why do Christians so often feel the need to make it "relevant"?

. . .it seems we are obsessively focused on convincing seekers through a self-trusting fixation on programming and style, when we ought to be relentlessly focused on inviting sinners through a Spirit-trusting enjoyment of the undiluted gospel and a scandalous grace.

Amen, Jared.