Change: Is There an App for That?
According to the most recent study, over 5,000 messages are now thrust into people’s paths daily. And the proliferation of smart phones and social media over the last few years has made sharing them – for better or worse – easier than it’s ever been.
For church leaders and ministries around the world, this could prove to be an enormous challenge – or an enormous opportunity.
Which is it for you? How are you navigating the seismic and blindingly-rapid cultural and technological changes taking place in the world? How do you view technology? And, is it possible to harness it to make intentional, lasting and meaningful change for yourself or for your congregation, ministry, community? If so, how?
These are the questions being asked by long-time Hollywood film producer, media consultant and cultural commentator Phil Cooke in his new book, Jolt! Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing (Thomas Nelson, 2011).
The book, hitting shelves across the country throughout April, will anchor and empower readers, church leaders and laymen alike, with twenty-five specific “jolts” that can be used to establish a new direction and navigate change.
Relevant topics Cooke is available to discuss include:
• How are church leaders and ministries using technology to mobilize their congregations? To encourage them and the world? To deliver the right messages? To deliver the Gospel of Jesus Christ? And if they’re not, how can they? If they don’t, do they risk being left behind?
• If we’re called to deliver the Gospel to the ends of the earth, isn’t technology that makes that easier than ever before a GOOD thing? And if not, why?
• How are ministries (especially the mega-churches) navigating these changes? Are the ones that are thriving doing so in part because they’ve embraced social media and technology? Because they’ve figured it out? Are the ones that are crumbling doing so because they’ve not and are losing the younger generations? What are the ones that are doing it right doing so well?
• Does it feel as though Hollywood is playing an enormous role in the reshaping (destruction?) of our morality & culture? Providing mass quantities of the images and messages that our new technologies are spreading/ delivering instantly into the hands of the next generation? Phil is a Hollywood film producer and owner/president of Cooke Pictures – but first and foremost identifies himself as a Christian. TALK HOLLYWOOD, MEDIA, CHRISTIANITY, TECHNOLOGY AND HOW IT CAN ALL WORK FOR, OR AGAINST, THE KINGDOM.
• ESPECIALLY HELPFUL FOR THOSE FACING UNPLANNED/SUDDEN DRASTIC CHANGES (LOSS OF JOB, HOME, ETC)
PhilCooke.com (blog, The Change Revolution, and website)
Twitter: @PhilCooke (over 10,000 followers)
** Phil Cooke is available for interviews and review copies of the book are available. For more information, contact: Jason Jones, [email protected] or via Twitter: @Book_Publicist
