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Re: if your ministry is chasing MTV you’re 5 years too slow…

Jason — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:43:13 -0000

Wow, that is some really insightful stuff. The funny thing is, if we sit and think about it we have known it for a few years now! I think the majority of the teens-twenties spend their time doing...random things. It is all about what it has been about since Jesus walked the earth..RELATIONSHIPS.

Re: if your ministry is chasing MTV you’re 5 years too slow…

Vince — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:20:18 -0000

MTV has showed their weakness for year, they have always had an awful and mostly useless website. With their resources they should have the slickest and hottest web site around....FAiL

Re: if your ministry is chasing MTV you’re 5 years too slow…

Chris Elrod — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:09:59 -0000

MTV also got away from what they did best...music videos. Though I am no longer a bivocational church planter...I still substitute middle and high school once a month to keep my credentials up. The kids Vcast vieos like crazy on their phones...they all the time say they only watch MTV or VH1 when the videos are on. Just my two cents.

Re: if your ministry is chasing MTV you’re 5 years too slow…

Dan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:58:39 -0000

It always intrigues me that survey results always come out 3 years following the data collection. So there is always a lag. Plus, who are we asking? Does MTV have the same impact on Anderson, SC as Raleigh, NC? I don't know.

I think the church needs to use everything we can to communicate with people - TXT, Facebook, E-mail, YouTube, Phone Calls, Snail Mail - Everything.

T.V. is the only one that shouldn't be use because it is static and not as "reaching out" as the other sources. Heck, I go to the internet to watch shows now. Many of my teens do as well. It is a user-driven culture and T.V. doesn't lend itself to it.

Re: if your ministry is chasing MTV you’re 5 years too slow…

B.CooP* — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:12:50 -0000

@John -- all over it... my asst got back to you true!?

Re: if your ministry is chasing MTV you’re 5 years too slow…

John — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:02:47 -0000

Oh, and btw, QuietTime.tv is coming very soon. You still down?

Re: if your ministry is chasing MTV you’re 5 years too slow…

John — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:02:14 -0000

Whoa. This is a great article and read. Thanks for that! I think this highlights (among a number of things) that there is even a greater need for evangelical technological engagement on the web-o-sphere... because that's where we're all hanging out.

1. Culture is using tech to communicate nearly everything these days. Throw me an example and I'll show you a site.
2. Carefully, but also at the same time "dangerously". We need just as much wisdom and guidance by the Holy Spirit as we need the passion and fire and burn of being "entrepreneurial" in our online endeavors. A good mix, I'd say.
3. a decade, or more. ... well, i've always said that (because I've heard that in some great research) but perhaps it's catching up slowly... ... nah. a decade.