779: #779 - Is Technology Enslaving Us? Jay Kim
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🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Preston talks with his friend Jay Kim, who’s a pastor at Vintage Church in Santa Cruz, CA, and the author of the forthcoming book Analogy Church. Jay has been rethinking how we go about using technology in church and how we can break free from being enslaved to technology. Jay and Preston also talk about the unique, post-Christian, hyper progressive context of Santa Cruz and the challenges and opportunities his church faces in this context.
Jay Kim serves on staff at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, CA, overseeing leadership and teaching, and on the core leadership team of the ReGeneration Project. He also co-hosts the ReGeneration Podcast. Some of Jay's written work has been featured in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and Relevant Magazine. He is a graduate of Fuller Seminary.
Jay's first book, Analog Church, is set to release in March 2020. The book addresses the challenges and opportunities churches face in the digital age, offering a new and hopeful way forward.
About Analog Church
What does it mean to be an analog church in a digital age?
In recent decades the digital world has taken over our society at nearly every level, and the church has increasingly followed suit—often in ways we're not fully aware of. But as even the culture at large begins to reckon with the limits of a digital world, it's time for the church to take stock. Are online churches, video venues, and brighter lights truly the future? What about the digital age's effect on discipleship, community, and the Bible?
As a pastor in Silicon Valley, Jay Kim has experienced the digital church in all its splendor. In Analog Church, he grapples with the ramifications of a digital church, from our worship and experience of Christian community to the way we engage Scripture and sacrament. Could it be that in our efforts to stay relevant in our digital age, we've begun to give away the very thing that our age most desperately needs: transcendence? Could it be that the best way to reach new generations is in fact found in a more timeless path? Could it be that at its heart, the church has really been analog all along?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Ra. I will be in Orange County on February 9th and 10th. |
| 0:07.0 | I will be in Northern Colorado, |
| 0:09.0 | specifically Greeley, Colorado, March 5th and March 6th. |
| 0:13.6 | I'll be in Nashville, March 10th, and March 11th. |
| 0:17.8 | And I will also be in Seattle, Washington, March 15th, |
| 0:21.6 | Philadelphia, April 30th, and May 1st. |
| 0:24.4 | Please go to Center for Faith.com |
| 0:27.1 | forward slash events to look up how you can register for these events |
| 0:31.6 | if you want to attend one of these talks. I think all of those |
| 0:34.6 | talks have something to do with faith, sexuality and gender. So please check out Center for |
| 0:40.3 | Faith.com for more info on those events. My guest for today Center for |
| 0:43.4 | more info on those events. My guest for today is a friend |
| 0:47.0 | that I've gotten to know over the years. |
| 0:48.4 | J Kim. |
| 0:49.7 | J Kim is on pastoral staff at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz. |
| 0:56.5 | Vintage Faith Church is also where Dan Kimball has served for many, many years. And so you might have heard about the church |
| 1:04.8 | through reading about or listening to Dan Kimball talk. J Kim is one of the main |
| 1:10.3 | teaching pastors there and is passionate about discipleship and about |
| 1:14.7 | specifically about how technology relates to Christian discipleship and how we do church. He's |
| 1:21.8 | the author of a forthcoming book called Analog Church |
| 1:26.0 | why we need real people places and things in the digital age. I love the way |
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