Plugged In

Plugged In

Connecting your faith with what you watch, read, and play

Enjoy culture in a way that feeds your faith and helps you share it with others.

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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.

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Contents

  • Foreword by Timothy Keller
  • Introduction: Faith in an age of information overload
  • 1. What culture is and why you should care
  • 2. The story of culture
  • 3. Culture as story
  • 4. “Can I watch…?”
  • 5. Confronting and connecting with culture: the theory
  • 6. Confronting and connecting with culture: the practice
  • 7. Your turn: Cultural engagement for disciples
  • 8. Here's some I prepared earlier...

Specification

Contributors Daniel Strange
ISBN 9781909919419
Format Paperback
Dimensions 129mm x 198mm x 9mm
Language English
Pages 192
Publisher The Good Book Company
Endorsements

Timothy Keller

Founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NYC, Chairman of Redeemer City to City, New York Times bestselling author

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.

William Edgar

Professor of Apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia

In this gem of a book seasoned author Daniel Strange manages what few people could do. He pre-digests the unwieldy and complex realm of culture studies and makes it unaffectedly clear. He also helps Christians know how to navigate in a world where culture appears out of control. He connects the decisions we must make to biblical texts, and to robust doctrines all along. Most of all he tells us why we should care about engaging culture and he makes crucial suggestions for how to do that. All of it is in a writing style that is full of imagination, enviably lucid, down-home without being folksy. This will be the go-to text for years, even decades to come.

Dr Tim Chester

Faculty member of Crosslands Training and author of Enjoying God

We all spend hours each week watching, reading and listening. Not only does this add up to a significant proportion of our lives, but it’s also a big influence on how we think and behave. So it’s vital we think about how being a Christian shapes the way we interact with the culture around us and I know of no better guide than Plugged In. Dan Strange provides both a biblical framework and practical nuts-and-bolts tools. But Plugged In goes further, for it shows how culture can be a great starting point for speaking of Christ with our friends and colleagues. I warmly commend it.

Independent reviews

A much-needed resource to connect our cultural stories with the True Story

Jonny Ivey, Heirs Magazine, May 14th 2019

Plugged In equips us to find a door into people’s worlds. Into our own worlds. It’s a much-needed resource to connect our cultural stories with the True Story - and to show others where they can find the real happy-ever-after they were always looking for.... continue reading

If you read this brief book you will do yourself, the gospel cause, and the people you’re speaking to a huge service.

Chris Green, Ministry Nuts and Bolts

If you read this brief book, and rethink some of your preaching and evangelistic conversations in the light of it, you will do yourself, the gospel cause, and the people you’re speaking to a huge service. I don’t know of any other book which covers this ground, let alone shows us what to do with it.... continue reading

I absolutely devoured this book because it is such a fun, humorous read

Alistair Chalmers, Chalmers

This is a great read that will help you engage well with culture, enable you to communicate the gospel in a more engaging way and help you think through the world that we live in.... continue reading

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