Pr. Jonathan teaches how to make simple design and video content for digital and print.   

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Pr. Jonathan teaches how to make simple design and video content for digital and print.

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Digital Evangelism

Michael Kusarawana

01 Why Digital Evangelism

02 Platforms and Demographics

Jonathan Min

03 Design and Video Part 1

04 Design and Video Part 2

All right, good afternoon, or good morning to whoever you're watching and also to those who are present.

My name is Pastor Jonathan, and today we'll be looking at content creation, specifically graphic design and its principles.

And the past week, Pastor Michael has been guiding us through and showing us how we can use digital evangelism in terms of social media.

And the last presentation that he gave was showing us practical tools or platforms that we can use for digital evangelism.

And so my talk today is more tailored towards the question of, OK, we know what we should do.

But the question is, how do we actually get to the point of creating?

How do we create content for social media?

And I want to propose to you that you don't really have to be this amazing designer.

You don't have to be extremely skilled or talented.

Anyone can do this if you follow these simple principles.

And also, just to throw this in there, you don't have to use paid software as well.

Just a little disclaimer, I've designed this entire presentation in Keynote, which is a presentation software, a free presentation software from Apple.

And the question that I've had, or I wanna ask to all of you today as well is, Do the creative arts have a place in the church?

And the reason why we ask this is because, at least coming from my background, a lot of times we'll associate creativity with a lack or a desire to go away from the rules.

We don't like to be constrained or restricted.

And also, at the same times, many of the creative arts invoke feeling or emotion.

And there's this idea out there that emotions or feelings are bad things.

Obvious answer is no, but at the same time, feelings do have their proper place, but not in priority in our relationship with God.

So meaning they're not to be the highest priority of our standing with God.

We know that Ellen White talks about how reason and good judgment are to rule and guide us.

So do the creative arts have a place in the church?

And the reason why I had this question, again, just to reiterate, was because oftentimes, you'll notice there's a divide between media people, or so-called creatives, and conservatives.

And I don't wanna get political, I'm just showing what I've observed personally, even in my own life.

But you'll go, or you'll observe that in churches, you'll find there's often a division, Not usually in a bad way, but there's there's a clear division between the media or a V team and the rest of the church congregation and I can say that because I myself we've been working up there in AV with our team and so this is not me against you, this is me trying to, having both sides, trying to bridge the gap.

And so we see this divide, and the reason that we see this divide is because we have here a group of people who are behind the scenes and they're making everything work in the church, but there's not much involvement.

And usually what you'll find in creatives is that they're high in a personality trait called openness.

Openness is 1 of the 5 personality traits of the big 5 personality theory.

It indicates how open-minded a person is.

A person with a high level of openness to experience in a personality test enjoys trying new things.

They are imaginative, curious, and open-minded.

And so, a lot of times you'll find that most creatives, they don't like to be restricted by rules and regulations.

And so when you have a conservative church that is more bent towards, not all the time, but It leans more towards rigidity and order and rules.

You'll find that there's a lot of times there tends to be an opposing or opposition between the 2.

And just to give a little bit of backstory to what I'm talking about, I went to a college called Heartland College, and Heartland was specifically, they offered a few majors or courses that were tailored to ministry.

A couple of them being pastoral evangelism, media, midwifery, health, things like that.

And out of all the different majors, there was a stereotype that the media majors were the least spiritual.

And me, I had initially come to Heartland studying media.

I had not taken the theology or the pastoral evangelism major.

And so I looked at that and I thought, why is that the case?

And it wasn't until God moved on my heart and he called me to study the Bible.

And as I learned more about the Bible and I saw it in the books of the Old Testament, the New Testament, Pauline letters, and I saw, I began to see the beauty in a unified theme, that I began to see everything that I'm learning here in media is not separate from the Bible.

In fact, all the same principles that we find apply in both.

And so we find here, or at least I learned, that there was a mesh or a mixing or a blending, harmonious blending of the 2 of design and the Bible.

And where I saw this most clearly was the sanctuary.

When I learned about the sanctuary, Ellen White talks about how the sanctuary gives us a clear conception that all these truths are connected and harmonious.

So I began to see that design had its foundation in the Bible.

A lot of people think that design is simply making things look nice or pretty.

While that's part of it, It's much broader and deeper than we think.

And if they're properly applied, the principles of design, if they're properly applied, they could influence not only just our designs, but even down to our churches, our personal lives, our family lives, all these different areas.

And so design, these principles that guide design are, I wanna show you guys today that they're much bigger than design.

These principles are not just limited to the digital and the print media.

They are divine principles that God wants to teach us.

At least that's the definition that I've come to throughout the years of my work as a designer.

I've come to find that design is basically, every design will always have like raw text and they'll have you say, here we have all this information, boom, boom, boom, design it in this way, we want it to look nice.

And so the designer's job is to make sure we use that raw text, and we make it so where it's clearly communicated, but still aesthetically pleasing.

And I looked up some formal definitions of design.

And a couple that I came across were, here we have the art or action of conceiving of and producing a plan or drawing.

And the example sentence says good design can help the reader understand complicated information.

And The other definition was purpose, planning or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact or material object.

And you know when I think of design, I always think of creation.

And if I were to summarize a thought, how many of you have ever thought, how is it that almost everything that you find in life will always teach you about different lessons?

You know, We think of like the family circle, we think of different object lessons that we find, maybe in nature or various different aspects.

And everything always teaches us a lesson, a specific lesson, and it's so intentional and thematic that you have to ask, this can't possibly just come out of nowhere.

It's almost as if someone had a plan, a purpose, or an intention behind the creation.

And today I wanna show you guys the greatest plan that has ever been made.

It was handcrafted and executed by God himself.

And this plan was designed to redeem, restore and reclaim us.

We see that first in Genesis chapter 2, when Adam and Eve fell.

We know that the very after the curse was brought, but at the same time, preceding that, God proclaims that there would be a savior who would come and crush the head of the serpent.

And it was in Genesis chapter 3 that we find that God gives a type or a symbol to represent this promise that God had instituted in Genesis chapter 2.

And then we find at the cross that, Yeah, then we find at the cross that it was ratified.

Ratified basically just means he acted it out, he fulfilled it.

And we know that at the close of time or when the millennium ends, then Ellen White writes in the last paragraph of the great controversy, she says, that sin will be purified, or sin will be gone from the universe, and the whole universe will be clean.

But today we want to look at the type or the symbol, because this symbol was to be an image that was to teach us about a message.

And if you have your Bibles, turn with me to Genesis chapter 3, verse 21.

And here God, we're still in the garden, and this is after they had fallen and given into the temptation.

And God here gives a precious lesson to both Adam and Eve that tells us about the message of salvation.

It says, unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothe them.

So here we have the first mention or institution of the sacrificial system.

And Ellen White will go on to expound upon what this was to mean.

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