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The Framework

The Living God who speaks

The Living God who speaks

"And God said…”

Genesis 1:3, 6, 9, 14, 20, 24, 26

The living images of the living God

“Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Genesis 1:26

The living, speaking, images of the living God“He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.”

Genesis 2:19

The living God who speaks: Word

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”

John 1:1, 14

The living God who speaks: Image

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”

Colossians 1:15

The Living God who speaks: Multimedia

“In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son…”

Hebrews 1:1-2

Some theological buzzwords:Accommodation

Speaking like God“What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us…”

1 Cor 2:12-14

Speaking like God“This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.”

1 Cor 2:12-14

Speaking like God“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.”

1 Cor 2:12-14

Some theological buzzwords:Incarnation

Communicating like God“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God,did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;”

Communicating like God“…rather, he made himself nothingby taking the very nature of a servant,being made in human likeness.”

Philippians 2

Communicating Like God“Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible… I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

1 Corinthians 9:19, 22

Communicating Like God“And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.”

2 Corinthians 5:20-21

Some theological buzzwords:Cruciform

Communicating like God“And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!”

Philippians 2

Communicating like God“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

1 Corinthians 1:18

Communicating like God“When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

1 Corinthians 2:3-4

Communicating like God“I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power.”

1 Corinthians 2:3-4

Communicating like God“For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.”

2 Corinthians 4:11

Communicating like GodMay I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world… From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

Galatians 6

Communicating like GodThen you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.

Philippians 2:15-16

Communicating like GodThen youse will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.

Philippians 2:15-16

Communicating like God“Incarnation means that God enables divinity to embody humanity. Christians, like Jesus, are God’s incarnations, God’s temples, tabernacling in human flesh (John 1:14; Phil. 2:3-8).

Gailyn Van Rheenen

Communicating like God“Christians, spiritually transformed into the image of God, carry out God’s ministry in God’s way. Frequently incarnationalists relate to seekers from other world religions personally and empathetically ...”

Gailyn Van Rheenen

Communicating like God“Sometimes, however, they declare God’s social concerns by shaking up the status quo and “cleaning out the temple.” The end result of incarnation in a non-Christian world is always some form of crucifixion.”

Gailyn Van Rheenen

Communicating Like GodThe Framework:Incarnate, cruciform, image bearers accommodating others as we proclaim Jesus together.

Communicating Like God“You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.”

2 Corinthians 3:2-3

Communicating Like God“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

2 Corinthians 3:18

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The Reality

1980Digital Natives

Narrative shaping

“Media aren’t just channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.”

Nicholas Carr, The Shallows

Narrative shapingNo ‘neutral’ mediums // Neuroplasticity, media ecology, and idolatry

Narrative shaping

“We shape our tools, thereafter they shape us.”

John Culkin

Narrative shaping

“Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot.”

Marshall McLuhan

Narrative shapingWhen we go online, we, too, are following scripts written by others—algorithmic instructions that few of us would be able to understand even if the hidden codes were revealed to us.

Nicholas Carr, The Shallows

Narrative shaping

Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

Psalm 115:8

Narrative shaping“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

Romans 12:2

Shaped by a new Narrative

“The medium is the message”

Marshall McLuhan

Shaped by a new Narrative“In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.”

Marshall McLuhan

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The Task

Communicating Like GodThe Framework:Incarnate, cruciform, image bearers accommodating others as we proclaim Jesus together.

Know the mediums“What are the rules of the medium and what are the underlying messages and patterns that emerge from those rules?“

John Dyer, From the Garden To The City

Know the mediums“We use Google to search for secret things, to investigate what other people are saying about our deepest darkest secrets, interests and curiosities. Google Image search is filled with pictures of pets doing hilarious things, while Google search serves up results on the great ocean of porn out there on the Web.”

Jonah Peretti,Buzzfeed Founder

Know the mediumsFacebook, on the other hand, is a projection of our social relationships and behavior. Together, they generally represent and are a metaphor for the two ways we use the Internet.

Jonah Peretti,Buzzfeed Founder

Know the mediumsOn Facebook, the same person who is looking at stories involving nude pics, is also looking at and sharing inspiring stories about victims overcoming disabilities and so on, along with politically-motivated stories.

Jonah Peretti,Buzzfeed Founder

Know the Narratives (myths)

Know the limits

Crucify self-seeking Narratives

“He must become greater; I must become less.”

John 3:30

The perils of clicktivism“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others.”

Matthew 6

Value presence over absence

“I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.”

2 John 1:12

But absent presence is valuable

SOCIAL & MEDIA

MEDIA: It’s public

MEDIA: You are a publisher

SOCIAL: You are networkedCreate, Empower, Curate.

SOCIAL: You are networked

Create, Empower, Curate.Generously & Authentically

SOCIAL MEDIA: Create

PHOTOS & STORIES

SOCIAL MEDIA: Empower

USER GENERATED

SOCIAL MEDIA: Curate

SHARE & TAG.

BE GENEROUS

Pursue costly relationships

BE GENEROUSWrite with clarity, read with charity

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