Comments on: Amusing Ourselves to Death http://www.jameschoung.net/2009/02/20/amusing-ourselves-to-death/ James Choung's home on the web Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Hayley http://www.jameschoung.net/2009/02/20/amusing-ourselves-to-death/comment-page-1/#comment-3437 Hayley Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:44:17 +0000 http://www.jameschoung.net/?p=472#comment-3437 I think Neil Postman could be right... I read his book 3 years ago and it has been helpful to guide my thoughts when deciding how to do church in ways that engage? Whether we do things at church because we give into the laziness & distractedness of our generation! I don't think we should make life impossible but I do sometimes think less frills and whistles means people will have to think about their faith... after all this is also the age where a high percentage of the western world are university educated also. What do we need to do to grab people's attention with the good news of Jesus? Is the news of Jesus riveting enough? I think Neil Postman could be right… I read his book 3 years ago and it has been helpful to guide my thoughts when deciding how to do church in ways that engage? Whether we do things at church because we give into the laziness & distractedness of our generation! I don’t think we should make life impossible but I do sometimes think less frills and whistles means people will have to think about their faith… after all this is also the age where a high percentage of the western world are university educated also.

What do we need to do to grab people’s attention with the good news of Jesus? Is the news of Jesus riveting enough?

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