Media, Arts and Entertainment

1. Media, Arts &
Entertainment
Session 5

2. Role of Media in Culture

3. “Whoever controls the media controls
the culture.”
Francis Schaeffer,
How Should We Then Live?

4. “Art and media are the means and the bridge
over which the current philosophy of the
philosophers reaches the general culture.”
Francis Schaeffer,
How Should We Then Live?

5. Media
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who
brings good news. - Isa 52:7

6. A Visit to the Headquarters of
National Media
New York City
June 2008

7. “Os, you would be shocked. The
entire media is controlled by less
than 100 people.”
- Executive News Producer,
Top 3 Network

10. God’s Purpose and Calling on those in
the Media
• Prophetic voice of the nation
• Proclaimers of truth (expose unrighteousness)
• Accountability for leaders in culture
• Unbiased information source

11. 2008 Election
“We admit we were biased.”

12. Center For Media and Public Affairs, George Mason University, Virginia
Survey 585 Network News Stories, Aug 23-Sept 30
Favorable to Obama
65%
CBS 73%
NBC 56%
ABC 57%
Fox 60%
Favorable to McCain
36%
CBS 31%
NBC 16%
ABC 42%
Fox 60%

13. Michael Malone, 4th generation journalist
for ABC News website
“The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous game. With its readers,
with the Constitution, and with its own fate. The sheer bias in the print and
television coverage of this election is not just bewildering, but appalling. And
over the past few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my
head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my
television and laptop computer.”

14. Principal
Manifestations
• Power – control’s
people’s views
• Addictive –
intoxicating
environment,
personalities, people
of influence
• Seductive –
encourages you to
make choices w/out a
moral consideration

15. National Media
Journalist Profile
Liberal worldview. Educated at an
Ivy League school which largely
promotes a liberal worldview.
“Insiders only” profession.
90% will hold a Democratic political view with
exception being the Fox Network

16. Media also has the power to do great
good and cause tipping points
for good

17. Harvard

18. Harvard, March 2012

19. God and Media
Billy Graham and
Wm Randolph Hearst
1950s Randolph Hearst promoted LA crusade after
observing his charisma, celebrity, and ability to
sell papers. He was an unknown until the media
began promoting him.

21. Unredeemed Media
Woe unto them that call
evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for
light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!”
(Isa 5:29).

22. “We’ve been lied to so
thoroughly and
consistently that we
no longer perceive the
meaning of what we
see nor understand
what we hear,” says
David Kupelian,
author, The Marketing
of Evil

23. Media is changing the way we
think about key culture issues
Issue
• America’s Christian
heritage
• Christian absolutes
• What is a family?
• Evolution
• Israel
Satan’s Ploy
• Separation of church and
state. Revisionism.
• Relativism. “You are too
rigid, uncooperative”
• Gay rights. Redefine
marriage.
• God had nothing to do
with your creation. Darwin.
• Troublemakers, Anti-
semitism

24. Media is changing the way we
think about key cultural issues
Issue
• Sex/Morality
• Big business is evil
• Freedom of speech
• Abortion
• Redefine marriage
Satan’s Ploy
• Anything should be
acceptable to individual
• Government should take
care of us
• Keep Christians quiet in
public arenas. Double
standard.
• It’s my right to kill
• Any two people

25. “Vanity Fair said, Oprah
Winfrey arguably has more
influence on the culture than
any university president,
politician or religious leader
except the Pope.”
“Christianity Today on Oprah:
“To her audience of more
than 22 million mostly
female viewers, Oprah has
become a post-modern
priestess—an icon of church-
free spirituality.”

27. Arts & Entertainment

28. “I wish I’d met you 25 years ago.”
Feb 2011

29. 6 Major Studios
Mostly operated by secular Jews

30. Corruption among the Studios
“The reason you never see one story in print about profits made from a
motion picture is because there isn't any. (Not to be confused with a
film's highly publicized box office gross). The entire system is
designed to seize creative control from the producer and steal every
cent of profit. To the major Hollywood Distributor, it's a game. To the
film maker, it's their life.” -- Industry Insider
Source: Insiderhttp://whiteowlfilms.com/minefield.html

31. Church Abandoned Hollywwood
Dr. William Dyrness, professor of theology and culture
at Fuller Seminary, tells of a producer at Twentieth-
Century Fox in the 1930s. The producer wrote letters to
several evangelical colleges, asking them to send their
graduates to become screenwriters, to help make good,
wholesome movies. The response was alarming. One
college president wrote back saying he’d rather send
their young people to hell itself than send them to
Hollywood.
Not in workbook

32. Battle for Hollywood, Ronald
Reagan and Communism

33. “Of all the arts, the cinema is the most
important for us, communists, to keep
the people under control. (from Lenin's
instruction to Dzerzhinsky, the founder of KGB)
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“The prize will be the complete control of
the greatest medium of communication in
history.” -Herb Sorrell, Communist Party Activist,
1946

34. Communist Party in
Hollywood
• Active since 1935
• Believed if they could capture Hollywood labor
unions, they could influence the type of
pictures being produced.
• Take leadership in intellectual groups -
directors, writers, and performers.
Reagan was primary tipping point to defeat communists

35. “People who believe they know the truth need to realize that
cultural influence requires more than knowing the story; it
requires telling the story thoughtfully and artistically. Never has
there been a greater need for wise, gifted storytellers who
understand the story we are in and can communicate a better way
gracefully and truthfully.”
Dick Staub,
The Culturally Savvy Christian
z

36. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise; and God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty;
1 Corinthians 1:26-28

37. Sherwood Pictures
Sherwood Baptist Church, Albany, GA
Initial investment of $20,000
• Facing the Giants – 2006
$100k budget, grossed $10,000,000
• Fireproof - highest-grossing
independent film of 2008 –
$500k budget, grossed $33,000,000
• Courageous (2011)
• $2 million budget, grossed $34,000,000

38. Quality vs the Message?

40. Under $5 mil budgets

41. The Change in Hollywood
Filmmaking - 2008
• “Franchise movies” – Die Hard, Star
Trek, Spiderman, Superman, Mission
Impossible
• Standalone projects, funding changes

42. 2008 Prophecy
“God will raise up His
sons and take them to
the top almost overnight
as he would put His ‘it
factor’ on them and that
will begin immediately
with a few and then be
exponential beginning in
2012.”
Johnny Enlow
Pregnancy: the child in your womb will effect an entire generation.

43. “I pray before I go on
stage with my whole
band and everybody.”
Justin Bieber,
February 2011
US magazine

44. Larry Poland, Master Media
Karen Covell, Hollywood
Prayer Network

45. What I have learned about Hollywood
• “Starving artists” isn’t a perception, it is reality
for many in Hollywood – Very small % make it big
• Difficult to trust. Takes time to build.
• Difficult spiritual culture to live in. Need
relationships to survive spiritually - must be
called
• “A la carte” Christianity

46. The higher you go up a mountain the more
demons assigned to you—spiritual warfare
For a great and effective door has opened to me,
and there are many adversaries.
1 Cor 16:9
• Whitney Houston
• Britney Spears
• Katy Perry

47. Tracy, a change agent worship leader

48. Hey Pops
Yes i did. How is South Africa? Thinking of u everyday. The
testimonies keep pouring in. A radical, radical shift occurred and a
new level of friendships and family is rapidly growing. For the first
time in my life as a Christian I am experiencing the "as one" factor
because people are realizing we will not make it on our own. Wow. I
can't tell you how much you and Ron impacted this beautiful
Hollywood of ours. The biggest testimony for me is how everyone
experienced the Father’s love through you guys. In a city of so many
orphans both your deep love and compassion really is ALL the
difference because people are so used to being misused and abused
and taken advantage of and you guys just love love love. I'm so
privileged to have such amazing spiritual fathers. Thank you Pops for
loving my friends so much.
Sunu
March 2012
Hollywood

49. Eric Liddell was the winner
of the men's 400 metres at
the 1924 Summer Olympics
in Paris. However, Liddell's
Olympic story gained
international attention when
he refused to run on Sunday
for his faith convictions. His
story was depicted in the
Oscar-winning 1981 film
Chariots of Fire.

51. Tim Tebow
When the NFL would not let Tim Tebow write John 3:16 on his eye
black, the Lord broadcast it in a way that no mere human could have
pulled off. Not only did Tebow throw for 316 yards in their playoff win
against Pittsburg (2011), but he averaged 31.6 yards a pass, and the
rating for the last part of the game was even 31.6. Because of this,
over the next few days more than 110 million people searched the
Internet to find out what John 3:16 said.
Think about that. No Christian would need to Google John 3:16
to see what it says, so these were not likely believers. This may have
been the single greatest witness in history, and there will be a harvest
from all of those seeds that were planted.

52. Christian stuntman Nik Wallenda crossed
a large gorge in the Grand Canyon, June
2013 praising Jesus with every step he took.

53. Summary
• Arts & Entertainment & media are the cultural mountains
that most define values and beliefs in culture.
• God is moving in Hollywood. He is raising up change
agents in this industry.
• Difficult spiritual climate. Few really make it.
• Some have used their notoriety to bring glory to Jesus
Christ
• We must pray for those in all forms of media and
entertainment. .

54. Presenting Christ on Entertainment Mountain
Steve Harvey