What we See, What we retain and Our Beliefs Pt1

Ever wonder why in most crime series, the clergy turns out to be the bad guy? Or the person who raped a child and is still serving in the same parish, ministry, school or organization? Or how prophesy is turned to a scam played by most pastors to get the congregation to "enrich the pastors"?

If this hasn't struck you, then I advice you go back and do some more watching. It may not be dominant in Nigeria for now as religion is a key factor in daily running of the country. Nevertheless with the rate of urbanization one wonders how soon this could be easily brought into the country. Hence the need for caution and clarity in what these lovely Television programs could cause us as a country

Studies have shown that we passively retain what we see at least two times less than what we hear. This memory gotten from things we see however tends to be more planted in our conscious when these images (which initially are suppose to fade) become a regular viewing for us. This is sounds very familiar if you remember Romans 10:17. Hence the idea is to continuously plant these suggestive in the programs that we watch and most times enjoy.

As i watched I notice that other religions were tactically projected to have better followers, members and leadership than that of the church. This has slowly become a trend; a systematic process of diminishing the credibility of the gospel we preach.

Most people go to church only on Sundays, services last an average of fours and sermons one hour. Another research showed that people loose retention of 20% of whatever they hear every hour after its being said to them. So this implies that people will most likely completely "forget" what is said on the pulpit by the Tuesday after the Sunday they went to church.

So what we are fed during the week is basically all we see; TV Programs (Sitcoms, Crime, Adventure Etc). Its therefore important for Christians to find their way into all forms of media and not create a sect for Christian Programs, we already have that quite sufficiently but seek ways to make these programs preach christ to people.