Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age

by Jay Y. Kim

Publisher:

IVP

, 2022

Overview

The digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to keep us scrolling and swiping at all costs, plugged into a feedback loop of impatience, comparison, outrage, and contempt. Blind to the dangers, we enjoy its temporary pleasures, unaware of the damage to our souls.

Jay Kim's Analog Church explored the ways the digital age and its values affect the life of the church. In Analog Christian, he asks the same question of Christian discipleship. As the digital age inclines us to discontentment, fragility, and foolishness, how are followers of Jesus to respond? What is the theological basis for living in creative resistance to the forces of our day? How can Christians cultivate the contentment, resilience, and wisdom to not only survive but to thrive as we navigate the specific challenges of our age?

Key Features

• Answers questions about how Christians can live in a digital age
• Invites readers to become aware of the dangers of temporary pleasures
• Explores the ways the digital age and its values affect the life of the church

Contents

Introduction: Digital Smoke, Analog Air, and Fruit

Part One:Cultivating Contentment

• Love Instead of Self-Centric Despair
• Joy Instead of Comparison
• Peace Instead of Contempt

Part Two: Cultivating Resilience

• Patience Instead of Impatience
• Kindness and Goodness Instead of Hostility

Part Three: Cultivating Wisdom

• Faithfulness Instead of Forgetfulness
• Gentleness Instead of Outrage
• Self-Control Instead of Reckless Indulgence

Conclusion: Gardening in the NICU Acknowledgments

Product Details

• Title: Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age
• Author: Jay Y. Kim
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 178
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Technology › Religious aspects--Christianity; Fruit of the Spirit
• ISBNs: 9781514003176, 9781514003169, 1514003171, 1514003163
• Resource ID: LLS:NLGCHRSTNCDGTLG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:51:58Z

About Jay Y. Kim

Jay Y. Kim serves as lead pastor at WestGate Church in the Silicon Valley of California and teacher-in-residence at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California. He's the author of several books, including Analog Church and Analog Christian. His writing has been featured in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and other publications. Jay, his wife, and their two young children call the Silicon Valley of California their home.