Comments on: Media Exposure, Addiction

By: R Dears

R Dears — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:33:23 +0000

This article is so true. Parents KNOW there is a problem-then say they can’t do anything about it?! That;s crazy! We KNOW what is best for our children and God hold US responsible… it’s simple, tell your child that an all chocolate ice cream diet is not healthy and neither is too much TV, XBOX, PS3, etc. Do it while they are young. You will notice a difference in their attitude AND you can reassure them – they won’t die

By: Rev.Irwin Lall

Rev.Irwin Lall — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:57:06 +0000

Thanks. God bless you.

By: Jim Roberts

Jim Roberts — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:04:30 +0000

George…
Thanks for being like Gideon and challenging the idols!!

MEDIA
Is anyone interested and/or convicted on how to reach the UNCHURCHED using the internet instead of just preaching to or fighting with the CHOIR???????

I have told many others on churchian internet forums, blogs, and chat rooms that if some JESUS loving and dedicated/consecrated individuals were interested in INTERNET outreach/evangelism….ONE approach is to find high volume YOUTUBE sites….with over 10 million views and POST bible verses or gospel messages under the video. One person in, less than an hour , can easily reach a 1000 people.
NO COST.

Read Mark 8:38

By: Darryl Riehle

Darryl Riehle — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:33:44 +0000

A well known behavior of addicts is that they deny that there is an addiction. Could there be a general blindness in our world today that causes us to defend instead of cosider a truth we can’t see? If I wre blind, I would want to be led by someone who could see that I trust. For me that is Christ Jesus. It makes sense that addiction is being a slave to your desires not your reason! God’s standard is the Bible, and in Romans 6 it states everyone is a slave to ONLY one of two things, sin (evil) or God and righteousness/holiness. There is nosuch thing as amorality with God. It’s either under His jurisdiction or in rebellion to Him (the first commandment). God is everything good, health, truth, love, peace, joy, justice, etc… I would choose to be slave to good with God than to evil. Evil/Sin is lust(uncontrolled desires) not love, lies not truth, etc…
It will never become an addiction for me to read the Bible too much…God says to meditate on it day and night.

By: Stoyan Georgiev

Stoyan Georgiev — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:51:29 +0000

Thank you for your kind answer, George!

We confirm the terms and will send you back the Bulgarian version.

Blessings!

Stoyan

By: George Barna

George Barna — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:18:02 +0000

Yes, you may use the information, assuming that appropriate attribution (name of author, source, and date of publication) accompanies the distribution/exposure of the information.

By: George Barna

George Barna — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:16:23 +0000

Stoyan, I am happy to give you the rights to reproduce it in Bulgarian. The stipulations that we place upon that are 1) it not be sold, it must be made available for free; 2) it must be reproduced in its entirety, not in part; 3) full credit and attribution must be given to the author and source (Written by George Barna, published at georgebarna.com, used by permission from George Barna, 2010); 4) and you would send us a copy of the final product. Thank you for serving the Lord in Bulgaria. I pray that this article is somehow additive to God’s work there.

By: Keith McFarland (Uganda)

Keith McFarland (Uganda) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:02:35 +0000

Have you heard of Shane Hipps’ book “The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture”? I would love to see someone build on the ideas he presents there for evaluating and maneuvering the tidal wave of media and technology. Here in Uganda, even in the village, culture is changing at the speed of light and media/technology is at the forefront of change. This is an issue that the global church at large MUST deal with NOW in a way that will equip our people both young and old to maneuver this mine field in a God-centered (Gospel-centered) way. Any thoughts?

By: Juan Carlos Flores Zuñiga

Juan Carlos Flores Zuñiga — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:43:30 +0000

Dear George
I cannot agreed more upon your blog on media addiction. We all ministers are tempted to fell into, specially because God put passion in us. However, when misdirected to earn notoriety or be in a circle of traveling christian lecturers our passion became about the temporal not the eternal. How much time we spent in twitter, or FB instead of sharing our changed lives to people who do not Christ. We may reach a lot of people through media but it will never substituted our call and being witness on a personal level to other.
Media is good and useful as long as it not become an addiction. Are we accountable to someone?
Be blessed

By: Gwen Meharg

Gwen Meharg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:00:12 +0000

Quote from Mako Fujimura during a conference on Beauty and Culture: The function of art is to mediate and steward time.
http://www.qideas.org/video/beauty-in-culture.aspx

I listened to this lecture right after reading this and I found it a fascinating juxtaposition to this article.