[Live Video] Media Theology Toolkit: Cultural Value Systems

In the 21st video of Adam Niven' s #FBLiveVideoChallenge for Media Theology Adam continues the overview of his Media Theology Toolkit ebook that he has been working on in the background.

[Live Video] Should Our Church Be On Social Media?

In the fifteenth video of Adam Niven' s #FBLiveVideoChallenge for Media Theology Adam delves into the question: Should Our Church Be on Social Media?

So you're a Christian Leader loving social media. But you're only preaching to the choir.

So in the first post of this series I laid out the three most likely positions when it comes to social media platforms.

1. Living it: you've got plenty of social profiles and presence and see it as an excellent tool in your ministry.
2. Ambivalence: Not really into it, but you've maybe got a social profile on a platform or two.
3. Opposed to it: Don't have any social profiles and it drives you a little wild to see how often others are always on their phones.

And in this final post it's time to dive into how to rethink what it means to be living it.

Because if you want to do more than preach to the choir, or engage in long protracted debates, you need to stop seeing social as a tool for spreading a message. 

Are you a Christian Leader Ambivalent About Social Media? Perhaps you should be more respectful.

So in the first post of this series I laid out the three most likely positions when it comes to social media platforms. And number two was ambivalence.

Not really into it, but you've maybe got a social profile on a platform or two.

Which ultimately can become quite a disrespectful stance to have. Just like any social situation, there are rules to abide by on social media platforms. And one of the key rules that enables social media platforms is that you need to be social.

Are you a Christian Leader and Not Interested in Social Media? You're failing the next generation.

If you're a Christian leader then your stance towards Social media is probably going to fall into one of three places:

1. Living it: you've got plenty of social profiles and presence and see it as an excellent tool in your ministry.
2. Ambivalence: Not really into it, but you've maybe got a social profile on a platform or two.
3. Opposed to it: Don't have any social profiles and it drives you a little wild to see how often others are always on their phones.

Well I'm going to start at the bottom first...don't worry, we'll be working our way to the top over the next couple of weeks...but if you're opposed to social media, it may just be you're to much in love with your the way you want the world to be.