28. Print
• Exactness
• Mass Distribution
• Reference/Footnotes
• Chapter and Verse
Numbers
29. Print
• Extends: communication,
storage
• Obsoletes: communal/written
knowledge, church authority
• Retrieves: access to truth
• Reverses Into: individualism
30. Print
• Authority shifted from the
Church to the individual
• Personal Bible study, individual
faith
• Faith is logical, not emotional
• Think in verses, not books
31. Print Digital
• Photograph
• Computer/Internet
37. Digital
I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of
overwhelming rapidity of information — and
especially of stressful information — is in fact
affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper
thinking. I still believe that sitting down and
reading a book is the best way to really learn
something. And I worry that we’re losing that.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
39. Digital
• Bible as information
• Bible as search
– John 3:16
– Romans 5:8
• Tools can reverse into
crutches, stifle learning
40. • Reject “The mediums change, but
the message is the same.”
• Read scripture aloud, in community,
without PowerPoint
• Reduce information, read and
memorize large chunks
41. • Reduce multi-tasking
• Create alternate experiences of
the Bible
• Offer recommendations, not
data dumps
• Minimize helps