I listened to a young but incredibly smart young man at the Excellence in Leadership Conference earlier this month. His name is Chude Jideonwo.

I was so inspired by his messages and will share few of them over the next few days.

This message by Chude is about putting up a show. And you will wonder, What type of show?’ And what is A SHOW?

I got two interesting definitions of the word ‘show’ from Word Web:

‘Give an exhibition to an interested audience.’

‘Make visible or noticeable.’

A show is a means of coming out of obscurity into visibility.

In July this year, eight thousand people entered a replica of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky. One man actually recreated Noah’s Ark and people trooped there to see it.

He put up a show!

Putting up a show is biblical.

Elijah put up a show at Mount Carmel and disgraced the prophets of Baal.

Moses put up a show in the palace of Pharaoh when his snakes swallowed up the snakes of the magicians of Egypt.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego put up a show when they turned a burning furnace into an air conditioned office.

Daniel put up a show when he turned fierce lions into his play mates.

What SHOW are you putting up? I pray it is one with the intent to BLESS your neighbour and not to CAUSE HARM.

The purpose of a show is to pass across a message in the most effective way possible.

The media is a very potent way of PUTTING UP A SHOW.

If you have something to say and you are not using the media, you are limiting your audience.

If you have something to say, say it.

Put up a show.

Give yourself a voice!

A lot of people are reluctant to use the media, especially the Social Media to air their views for varying reasons. Someone actually told me that Facebook ‘is a sin’ and a Christian should not identify with it.

The most ridiculous statement I ever heard.

Who wrote the first tweet?

Someone said it’s Jesus. He simply said, ‘Follow me.’

I have been a writer and speaker for years and I was not making too much impact.

Till I put up a show by going on Social Media.

I call people today and the first thing they say is, ‘Your messages on Facebook really bless me.’

I am pleased that I am affecting my generation.

Because I dared to put up a show.

It is time to put up your own show!