Plugged In: Connecting Your Faith With What You Watch, Read, and Play (Live Different)

Plugged In: Connecting Your Faith With What You Watch, Read, and Play (Live Different)

Enjoy culture in a way that feeds your faith and helps you share it with others. 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 in a way that helps your relationship with Christ and points others to him. There are now plenty of books calling us to find new ways of connecting our gospel presentation to the needs and questions of people in a secular, pluralistic society. Dan's book actually tells and shows us how to do it. There really is nothing else like it. -- Timothy Keller (The late Founding Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and Chairman of Redeemer City to City.) Daniel Strange is College Director at Oakhill Theological College in London where he lectures on Culture, Religion and Public Theology.