Roaring Lambs by Bob Briner is a great book about how a Christian should approach, consume, and get involved in media as a whole. Briner states that we should be roaring lambs, meek, inferior, and not seen as a threat. However, we can be roaring lambs by virtually shouting our messages through modern media. Briner’s approach for a Christian’s involvement in media is a simple one. Be involved. He says that the reason for a lack of good Christian media in the world is the lack of involvement of the Christians. Not just involvement of writers and directors wither. Any Christian can make a huge impact by simply doing things like writing to the local newspaper or television network. You can even make a difference by simply supporting good wholesome content and avoiding unwholesome content. The point of a roaring lamb is to get attention from …show more content…
someone who would not necessarily expect to hear you, and by being involved like Briner would like us to do, we can do just that. Too often Christians are looking for a single figure to lead. Kind of how Christ led his disciples. However, Briner makes the point that we do not need to wait for a leader to start making changes in media. Each one of us can make a difference ourselves, we do not need to wait for a leader. Briner has a fantastic quote when talking about Christians being the salt of the earth, stating, “Keeping Christians bottled up in the churches is keeping the salt in the shakers, and He does not go where we do not take him.” This is a great example of how he simply states that Christians should not be simply keeping their talents solely in the church, but be involved in other places as well. Briner does propose quite a few ideas throughout the book, but a few stand out.
First, in order for our roars to be heard he have to have a major presence of Christian ideals in our culture. We also need to have a firm belief that with God’s help a difference can be made. We need to be deliberate if our roars are to be heard and taken seriously. There should be strategy behind what we are doing, not simply going out blind. Another item Briner proposes in Roaring Lambs is the formula for success in the film industry for Christians making Christian movies. The seven step process includes, having a quality story, developing a sensible budget, spreading the risk, building relationships with producers, having a European strategy, an aftermarket strategy, and a quality cast. Although to some people this strategy seems simple and pointless, it is actually a great guide to someone in charge of a Christian film. Briner has several other proposals throughout the book including simple ones like watching good programs, avoiding bad programs, express your opinions to others, and praying for everyone currently involved in the media
industry. The best example of a call to action that Briner has brought up is simply being involved. I have seen more and more Christians involved in films and television shows. There have even been more and more Christian stories in movies and television hitting the mainstream media. Movies like God’s not Dead, Heaven is for Real, and War Room are great examples of such movies. I have also experienced Christians praying for those in the media. This is one of the most simple but most important proposals that Briner could have ever brought up. It is certainly one that literally every single Christian could do without changing their life at all. I have no seen many other ideas fully implemented in my experience so far. However, I hope to see more of the great ideas that Briner has brought up in this book implemented in years to come. One major thing I would add the Roaring Lambs would be the biggest player to enter the game in a long time, the Internet. There are so many opportunities that the Internet gives us for spreading God’s glory. Live streaming is a great way to connect with people all over the country and even all over the world. Much like the film industry and television networks, the Internet is often used for unwholesome ungodly things. But, Christians can at least add better, wholesome content into the mix. One of the biggest ways to reach people is through the video streaming service YouTube. Millions and millions of people flock to YouTube daily to watch a huge variety of content. You could easily make quick interesting videos with great messages for the everyday public to view. My overall response to Bob Briner’s Roaring Lambs is it is a highly important book for Christians, and especially for Christians already going into media fields. He is extremely accurate in saying how much the media has an influence and impact of today’s society. If Christians can just take proper advantage of that, then we could have ourselves a revival on our hands. This book has not changed my plans for working in the media. Ever since I switched to this major I wanted to make wholesome content that glorified God through its message. I have never really felt lead to work on a church video team, but instead I felt lead to the film industry. If I can be a godly example in the Hollywood world, then people will definitely take notice. There is a need for Christians getting involved in media in today’s society, and I plan to do just that.
achieving his goal of placing doubt into the minds of the religious. Making this a poorly-argued film due
Roald Dahl presents creepy moments in his story creepy things or have strange details that made you question if its normal or not. He will make the statement creepy in your head.
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A tiny town in Connecticut. Is this setting of Among Friends by Caroline B. Cooney. The time of year is from the beginning of the school year, to the end of the school year.
Black Elk speaks is a biographical book written by John G, Neihardt. In this book Neihardt talks to a man names Black Elk about his life and his tribe, the Lakotas. Before Black Elk could tell his story he offers the sacred pipe and tells the story of how it was given to his people. The story goes on and Black Elk talks about how he was sick and had a vision while he was sick. In his vision he saw many things like 12 horses that transformed into other animals, singing birds and six grandfathers. The Grandfathers told showed him sacred songs and dances to help his people. After being cured of his sickness by Whirlwind Chaser, a medicine man in his village, Black Elk had weird feelings towards his vision and told no one about what he saw. Many battles were fought against the Lakotas and the Wasichu soldiers. Back Elks cousin was Crazy
The book As Seen on TV by Karal Ann Marling, is a fascinating study into television and its influence it had on America in the 1950’s. There are many concepts, which are studied in detail proving the pull and push the TV “images” had on the entire U.S. culture.
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Portrayal of Christianity in the Media In this piece of coursework I am going to write an essay about how Christianity is portrayed in the media. I'm going to write about mainstream shows such as Songs of Praise and Paradise found. I am also going to write about how a Christian issue is dealt with on Eastenders which was Euthanasia. Then I am going to write about how Homosexuality is looked upon in the film Philadelphia.
A group of 20 teenagers called gladers have been dropped off in a safe house, in the middle of a scorched desert. There is no remembrance from anybody about how they got there and who took them there. They are all trapped in one room with zombies called cranks trying to get in through the iron bar windows, screaming, “KILL ME, KILL ME.” (Pg. 9) Eventually Newt, the oldest boy in the group, breaks the knob off of the locked door in their room, leading to a dark room full of dead bodies. When they wake up the next day all the dead bodies are gone and there was a man sitting in the room reading a book, he tells them that the world is about to end and the gladers are the last hope for survival. They have a disease that makes them turn into brain
It is exactly one month until my eighth grade graduation, and at that point I thought eighth grade would never end! It soon became 2 weeks... 1 week... and before I knew only two days to go and I’m graduating from St.Matthew School.
Riches’ seventh chapter, “The Bible in High and Popular Culture,” attempts to explain the extent of the Bible’s influence on Western culture. This chapter seemed to be pretty self-explanatory, as almost all paintings, music, and writings in the Western fashion have allusions to the Bible and expand upon the themes and symbols presented in it. Riches describes specific situations in which the Bible has influenced Western art, but the extent of this inspiration from the Bible is no way limited to the examples mentioned. The Bible has become so integral to Western culture that most of our classic and modern stories have motifs and allusions to Biblical event, to the extent of some of them being retellings. Examples of this include the works of Shakespeare, especially The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth, and spanning centuries to the writing of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, in particular The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Though Riches attempts to explain the overwhelming effect the Bible has had on the art of Western culture, it is not possible to explain in just one chapter because of the sheer volume of works inspired by the Bible over hundreds of years. The chapter gives excellent examples of these works, but I feel as it does not stress enough the extent of these allusions and
Movie nation Roger Moore claims “ its just a clumsily written, flatly-acted sermon built on some of the same stereotypes that made Tyler Perry rich.”
The Control of the media by industries stimulates a certain consumption, to seize not only the spirit, but also the spectators, creating new consumers subject goods.
Love Yourself as Hearers. Above all, the preachers should consider first the audience or “hearers” when preparing a sermon. As stated in this book, “we need to learn how to introduce, develop, and conclude our subjects in a way that interests hearers” (Galli and Larson, 1994, p. 16). In other words, we need to learn how to modify our words, sentences, paragraphs, stories and illustrations to deliver the message and impact the lives of our audience.
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