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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Which is More Effective for Reaching the Culture: Books or Videos?

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a digital visual age, have books become obsolete? Is there still any role for books in influencing culture, or has video taken over as the most effective way to reach the culture and the world? If you're interested in reaching the world for Jesus, which is more effective, books or videos? J. Warner answers these questions in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.

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0:00.0

Jay Warner Wallace is a cold case homicide detective who's been investigating

0:06.4

cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. His work has been

0:10.0

featured on Fox News, Dateline and Core TV. Now we join him as he applies his

0:14.7

investigative skills to making a case for Christianity.

0:24.3

Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity, I am Jay Warner Wallace. We're

0:28.9

in a rabbit trail a little bit this week because I got an email that really

0:32.5

started me thinking a little bit about how best people like you and I, people

0:35.8

who are interested in Christianity, people who maybe already Christians and we

0:39.0

want to submit our lives to the Great Commission where we tell others about the

0:44.0

good news, where we share the gospel with others, where we make a case for

0:47.0

Christianity with others. If you're someone who's been watching the channels like

0:51.3

this one or reading books or looking at websites and you're kind of interested

0:54.9

in the case for Christianity and you're kind of be wondering, well how do I get

0:58.6

involved? I mean, why are you reading and watching all of that material to begin

1:02.5

with? Isn't it because you have a sense that you ought to take it and shift from

1:07.4

being a content consumer to a content creator? Even if the only content you're

1:12.7

creating is the conversation you're about to have with somebody you really

1:15.7

care about at the office or somebody you really care about in your social

1:18.7

setting or somebody you really care about online. I mean, isn't that what you're

1:21.9

preparing yourself to do is to make that shift from just learning, learning,

1:25.6

to helping to show the truth to others? So the question I have, I got an email

1:30.6

that started all this, is which is a better approach to take in reaching

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