JOEL 2 GENERATION

MSDA — Make Self Dead Again 2.0 For nearly all of Church history, mass media was not the means by which the Gospel spread or ministries grew. Quite simply, it didn’t exist. That changed dramatically in the last 125 years. Modern media technologies—radio (first public broadcast in 1906), television (1920s), and most recently the internet (publicly accessible in the 1990s)—have revolutionized how the Gospel is communicated. Radio and television enabled millions to hear and even watch the Gospel being preached and the Scriptures taught. The internet then expanded that reach to billions , across hundreds of languages. The good that has come from these advances for the sake of Christ and His Kingdom is undeniable. And yet, at the very same time, these same developments have produced unprecedented crises within the Church. Access to deception, false teaching, and moral corruption is unlike anything in human history. Few would deny that these dangers have destroyed the faith and lives of cou...

For almost all of Church history, mass media was simply not a means by which the Gospel spread nor the way ministries grew. It didn't exist.  But in the past 125 years, modern technological advances in media have revolutionized the way the Gospel message has been able to spread. This was all made possible with the invention of radio (1st public broadcast in 1906), the invention of television (1920’s) and most recently, of course, the internet (which was made available to the public in the 1990s).  First, radio and television enabled MILLIONS to hear and even watch the Gospel being preached and the Bible taught. But then, the internet enabled BILLIONS to hear Christian truth in hundreds of languages. The incredible good that has come from these advances for the sake of Christ and His Kingdom is undisputed.  However, at the same time, these same mass media developments have led to unparalleled crises within the Church. The access to deception, false teaching and perversion ...