Comments on: Media Exposure, Addiction

By: Kurt Jones

Kurt Jones — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:11:21 +0000

Gwen – Thanks for including the including the Fujimura link. I enjoyed his talk and see it as supportive of Barna’s article. The overwhelming majority of media today has no appreciation for nor sees any necessity for beauty or truth. I see many Christians who advocate being media savvy as “missional” who are making pretty excuses for their addiction… I know, I could easily do the same!

By: Willie

Willie — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:40:10 +0000

As I look at this article, I use this as a source for a high school project. (Thank you) I have this NEED to check my Facebook account, as well as my phone every couple moments. I could not agree with this more. Thank you for giving me a chance to review my habits.

By: Samantha Goldberg

Samantha Goldberg — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:36:19 +0000

This is really scary, without even realizing it we are being brainwashed into all sorts of positive and negative suggestions. Come to think of it, I was in a bar the other day and I was horrified at the music that the youth now listen to; nearly all the songs had swear words, lyrics which demoralize woman, suggestions thats its okay to have one night stands and lyrics which imply you are only successful once you have money and ‘sexy’ bodies. Scary stuff! Media is seriously powerful and we should be more wary of it.

By: Shan Lao

Shan Lao — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:28:53 +0000

You reveal the astounding potential of the media for Christian outreach in your study called, “Christian Media Reach More Adults With The Christian Message Than Do Churches.” In this study you found that roughly 27 million people unaffiliated with any church access Christian content through radio, television or books, with Christian radio being accessed by fully 27% of all respondents.

According to your study, “… some of the most prolific movie viewers were homosexuals, unmarried partners, atheists and agnostics. Over 40% of moviegoers said they had seen a movie in the past year that caused them to think more seriously about their faith.”

If people were not so married to their media, wouldn’t we lose an important avenue of evangelism?

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.