Nov 2, 2020
What You'll Hear:
- He wanted to be a writer but didn't have mentors in that area, he got a degree in Journalism from the Univ of GA and then a Masters
- Became a Christian during a revival service at age 14 at their mega church in Roswell, GA
- First job was mowing lawn
- Go teach for a couple years, it's formative, you learn to speak
- He wrote and edited for a magazine then started his own business and sold it and started writing books
- He became an executive at World Magazine and the Colson Center, and now leads Ministry Watch
- Entrepreneurs are heroes in our culture today
- Whether it's born or learned, with entrepreneurship and leadership you can get better at it, and we're called to get better
- Break 1 - 16;25
- Ministry Watch Empowers Donors to Christian Ministries, speak for victims, and do investigative journalism
- They have databases including financial data on ministries going back 5 years, including ratings
- The world has become very cynical and skeptical about Christian ministries
- The bad guys damage their victims and the church as a whole
- The secular media's goal is purely to tear down. We are interested in theological error as much as financial or sexual error
- Watchdogs are needed in particular for the growth of megachurches that are not part of a denomination and therefore not accountable
- Break 2 - 27:40
- Stories are powerful because that's how God made us, we're wired to respond to stories
- Stories have a way of making the abstract concrete
- The TV Show Will and Grace is an example of a story having a huge impact on cultural opinion
- A Worldview is a way of viewing the world. Postmodernism (See book by Stanley Genz) is incredulity toward the metanarrative, an example of Postmodern storytelling is the show Seinfeld.
- Christian stories are about God not about us
- One method the media uses is appropriation of language, they'll use the same set of facts but define them in different ways
- Get news from a variety of sources and be sure to include sources with a Christian worldview
- Limit your intake of news because it's become a distraction
- Read old news better known as History
- Have some fasts from your smart phone
- Become a creator, it makes you much alert to how the media operates
- Go make something, go do something, there's never been a better time
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