The Beginning of a New Trend: American Bible Society Tackles Hot Issues In First TV Series

In what is to become a new trend in evangelical television, The American Bible Society has launched an issues based TV Series. Most evangelical religious broadcasting is a preaching/teaching format. With the debut of American Bible Society Presents, a new format sorely needed in evangelical television has begun. You should expect this new trend to quickly grow.

Most other mediums of television broadcasting have had news magazine style shows for years, for whatever reason evangelical organizations have never recognized the importance of this format. Programs like the new ABS show have been need for many years now to compliment the preaching/teaching programs in religious television.
The importance of these shows is not just to counter the secular and liberal bias of most programs in the mainstream media, but to equip believers to engage the culture on issues relevant to our society. Of course believers have always been able to participate in the debate on issues, but often we have been ill prepared to do it with a Christian Worldview and bring biblical principals into the discussion. Christian radio has been the only way believers could get this type of information, and has been invaluable because of it. As excellent as issue based Christian radio programming is, most everyone will agree that the medium of sight and sound that television brings is more powerful in conveying the biblical principals and thinking necessary to engage our culture in a helpful way.

I whole heartedly affirm the importance of the traditional preaching/teaching format of religious broadcasting. I also expect this format to be around for a long time, as it should be. Nonetheless, this new venture by the American Bible Society is a welcomed entry to the issues based news magazine format of broadcasting, and for evangelicals an oasis in the desert of secular humanism currently dominating television.

The article from Christian Post.com can be found here

The American Bible Society Presents web site is:http://www.abspresents.com/