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  • 160 Pages
  • Publisher: The Good Book Company
  • Publication Date: May 2019
  • ISBN: STRANDAPLUGGEDINCONNECTINGY9781909919419

Plugged in: Connecting Your Faith with Everything You Watch, Read, and Play

Strange, Dan

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Whether it's TV boxsets, Instagram stories or historical novels, we all consume culture. So it's important that we are neither bewitched by it - buying into everything it tells us - or bewildered by it - lashing out in judgment or retreating into a Christian bubble.

Dan Strange encourages Christians to engage with everything they watch, read and play in a positive and discerning way. He also teaches Christians how to think and speak about culture in a way that plugs in to a bigger and better reality - the story of King Jesus, and his cosmic plan for the world.

It's possible to watch TV and read novels and play video games in a way that actually feeds our faith, rather than withers it. It's even possible for you - yes, you - to be that person who starts off talking to a mate about last night's football and ends up talking about Jesus.

So be equipped to engage with culture and use it for God.

 

Contents

Foreword by Timothy Keller
Introduction: Faith in an age of information overload
1. What culture is and why you should care
2. The story of culture
3. Culture as story
4. “Can I watch…?”
5. Confronting and connecting with culture: the theory
6. Confronting and connecting with culture: the practice
7. Your turn: Cultural engagement for disciples
8. Here's some I prepared earlier...

dan strangeDaniel Strange is College Director at Oakhill Theological College in London where he lectures on Culture, Religion and Public Theology. Dan is married to Elly and they have seven children. He is an elder at East Finchley Baptist Church, and loves jazz music and West Ham football club.

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Whether it's TV boxsets, Instagram stories or historical novels, we all consume culture. So it's important that we are neither bewitched by it - buying into everything it tells us - or bewildered by it - lashing out in judgment or retreating into a Christian bubble.

Dan Strange encourages Christians to engage with everything they watch, read and play in a positive and discerning way. He also teaches Christians how to think and speak about culture in a way that plugs in to a bigger and better reality - the story of King Jesus, and his cosmic plan for the world.

It's possible to watch TV and read novels and play video games in a way that actually feeds our faith, rather than withers it. It's even possible for you - yes, you - to be that person who starts off talking to a mate about last night's football and ends up talking about Jesus.

So be equipped to engage with culture and use it for God.

 

Contents

Foreword by Timothy Keller
Introduction: Faith in an age of information overload
1. What culture is and why you should care
2. The story of culture
3. Culture as story
4. “Can I watch…?”
5. Confronting and connecting with culture: the theory
6. Confronting and connecting with culture: the practice
7. Your turn: Cultural engagement for disciples
8. Here's some I prepared earlier...

dan strangeDaniel Strange is College Director at Oakhill Theological College in London where he lectures on Culture, Religion and Public Theology. Dan is married to Elly and they have seven children. He is an elder at East Finchley Baptist Church, and loves jazz music and West Ham football club.

  • Cover Type:
  • 160 Pages
  • Publisher: The Good Book Company
  • Publication Date: May 2019
  • ISBN: STRANDAPLUGGEDINCONNECTINGY9781909919419