Without A Word

NewSong addresses this one to someone watching a friend's persistent resistance: "you keep talking, but he keeps walking away... again and again, you share Christ with him, you've said all you know, but you know he's heard nothing you say." The song admits upfront that words alone haven't worked.

The chorus offers a different strategy rather than more words: "without a word, let him hear you speaking, without a word, let him see Christ living in you." Peter's instruction that a wife might win over a resistant husband "without a word" by her conduct gives the title its exact source, applied here more broadly to anyone struggling to reach someone who's stopped listening.

"It's not what you say, but the way that you live every day" backs up James' instruction to be doers of the word and not hearers only, and the closing admission — "we care so much, our love gets in the way" — keeps the song honest that even good intentions can crowd out the quieter approach it's actually recommending.