Leonard Sweet (PhD., University of Rochester), is founder and president of SpiritVenture Ministries and serves as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey. He also is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and the chief writer for preachingplus.com, a resource for pastors and other Christian speakers. A popular speaker himself, Sweet has written more than twenty books, including The Three Hardest Words, Out of the Question Into the Mystery, AquaChurch, SoulTsunami, and SoulSalsa.
Praise for Viral "There are plenty of books on technology by
writers who don't understand Christianity. And there are plenty of
books on Christianity by people who are lost in the world of
technology. The genius of Leonard Sweet is that he navigates both
worlds, and his insight into living as a believer in today's
media-driven culture is not just helpful, it's critical.
Viral connects the dots between social media and our witness to the
world."
--Phil Cooke, PhD, filmmaker, media consultant, and author of Jolt!
Get the Jump on a World That's Constantly Changing "Viral is
culturally astute, Christ centered, gospel focused, kingdom
oriented. Tweet that! Leonard Sweet captures the zeitgeist of our
age in a biblically subversive way that redeems our technoculture
for Christ. He explores the promise and the peril of our brave new
world of electronic connectivity, while showing Christians how to
apply the gospel at the crossroads of modernity and postmodernity,
individualism and community, rational and relational faith. If you
are skeptical of TGIF (Twitter, Google, iPhone, Facebook) or want
to learn more, you must read this book."
--Brian Godawa, screenwriter of To End All Wars and author of
Hollywood Worldviews, Word Pictures, and Noah Primeval "Leonard
Sweet has always been Patient Zero for Spiritually Transmitted
Dis-ease, and Viral transmits the pathogen of the Paraclete better
than any other work I know. Sweet connects the incarnation to the
web, taking readers beyond the vapid and introducing us to the
layers of meaning behind the pixels on the screen."
--David McDonald, author of The Undwellable City "In Viral, Leonard
Sweet paints a fascinating picture of today's highly creative TGIF
culture, while inviting the Gutenberg Generation into a new
experience of Jesus's timeless campfire story. The Googler
Generation's passion for spreading the divine viral epidemic
through their passion for social media and narratives, as well as
their longing for connectivity and participation, provides
fascinating challenges for all followers of Jesus. Christians need
to become part of God's viral revival. Sweet shows us how."
--Stephan Joubert, extraordinary professor in New Testament
studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa; extraordinary
professor of contemporary ecclesiology, University of the Free
State, South Africa; research fellow at Radboud University,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and editor of Ekerk /Echurch
"The church has never been more equipped to reach people with the
gospel. With that opportunity comes a tremendous responsibility to
communicate the unchanging message of the gospel in an
ever-changing, hyper-connected culture. Leonard Sweet shares how
Christ-followers can spread this life-changing message and bring
about a revival unlike any we have seen before. He provides
practical ideas and pastoral insight into leveraging the
exponential opportunities available to share our faith through
social media."
--Tim Schraeder, co-director of the Center for Church Communication
and editor of Outspoken: Conversations on Church Communication
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