The Medium Is (Or Can Be) the Distraction

An excerpt from Joyful Exiles by James Houston:

It is the supremacy of the technologically surreal to which organized Christianity has succumbed. Take, for example, the recent film The Passion of the Christ. People wept over its celluloid presentation as they never would have done in reading the Gospel narrative because it was so much more vivid to the senses. Was their response then hyper-real or real? Is the Sunday service more impressive when the PowerPoint presentation eclipses the preacher’s sermon? Or does the message become more and more implausible with each technique used to market it? Does personal communication become muffled and withdrawn when the hearer is distracted by the medium?

Quoted in this Christianity Today review


One Response to “The Medium Is (Or Can Be) the Distraction”

  1. Negrito Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 4:41 am

    I’m working on a sermon for Sunday. Your blog reminds me to keep the ppt simple. Thanks

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