GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

The War for Your Mind

Scott Mayer

01 The Real Cost of Social Media

02 How to Avoid Deception

03 Digital Evangelism

04 Hollywood’s War on God

05 The Trouble with Al

Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we just thank you so much for this GYC conference and just the amazing speakers and people that are here that can inspire us and really empower us and push us out into the world to take hold of what we've learned and to go out and share it with others.

And so Lord, I just pray that this conversation right here be 1 that they remember.

We ask for your Holy Spirit to be a part of this conversation today as well.

And Lord, hide us all behind your cross that they only see you.

Amen All right, many of you guys probably know us most for how much we hammer away on media and I think that Naturally if you only kind of interact with us or have seen a video that we've created, and you know, it's real quick, I'll come into some environments and people will be like, oh, you just hate media, and that's what you, you know, just want to tear it all down and throw it away.

In fact, we've created a lot of media productions and lots that have nothing to do with Hollywood or social media or any of those kind of things.

And so I'm a big, firm believer that there is a place for this kind of technology and I see the positive use of it.

How many of you in this room are in some way, shape or form, I don't know, for lack of a better term, a digital evangelist at this point?

Have you recognized that there is more and more and more voices in Christianity starting to pop up?

Have you noticed how it's like it's starting to get louder and louder and that should make you excited about what we're about ready to enter into.

I'm also a little bit like, are we prepared?

I see when I travel around and I ask churches who here has seen this movie or who is watching this or that?

And it's like to see 90% of the hands go up on things that I wouldn't want to watch at all or think that they have no value to them, it alarms me when our church is still engaged in that kind of observing the world.

And so, I really want to turn your attention and your focus to understand you don't have to have a camera and a YouTube channel to be a digital evangelist.

If you have a phone and you pay attention to or watch some sort of sermons or you pay attention to a ministry online, how many of you actually regularly watch a ministry online?

Okay, probably almost everyone in this room.

You can be an evangelist by sharing the content, plain and simple.

And how many of you are like subscribers to people?

Do you know that's the most simplest way for you to actually help a ministry gain traction?

The more engagement that you get when you enter into the conversations, the more that you add to that conversation that you're observing, whether it be like, hey I was really impacted by this and I love this and this is the reasons why and hey this makes me think of this Bible verse, do you know that that simple action that you do right there all of a sudden pushes that ministry higher in an algorithm?

And it's not that we want to just have more popularity or anything.

We want to be effective And we want to be more in front of people to learn the truth while we have the ability to.

This last year I was confronted with something that happened to our ministry.

We put everything that we have on Vimeo, almost every single video that we simultaneously upload to YouTube, we put on Vimeo.

You violated the content laws or whatever of Vimeo.

And they literally deleted and took away our channel.

And so we fired back to them, and we're like, hey, well, what did we do?

We want to know what we violated so that we don't do that again.

1 day later, flipped it back on, all back.

Like if they don't want to have you speak to anybody they just turn off the microphone and Who you gonna kick and scream to the 30 people that are around you?

That's it We are at a critical moment right now.

We put things on TikTok and we used to get hundreds of thousands of views per video on TikTok and then all of a sudden there were 12 views.

That's not possible if you're talking about some celebrity or something.

Just by the nature of talking about famous or public people, you would get noticed.

We got shadow banned on there, and they just didn't show us to anyone.

I 1 time was with my wife, and I said, hey, I want to share a video with a friend that I knew we just made.

And I walked over to her phone, looked onto YouTube, looked onto our little light studios, and I could not find the video.

And I went, that's funny, I know exactly when we made it.

It's not here, it's not in between there.

I walked back over, found my phone, picked my phone up, right there.

Went back over to my wife's phone, not there.

So I'm telling you this to let you know It's time for every single hand that we can have if you are blessed by some material Share it Talk about it get it involved with it Just pass it around because I believe that we are coming into a day and age that we will not be able to share this material very quickly.

Listen to this beautiful quote from Krishna Charakter.

God has revealed what is to take place in the last days that his people may be prepared to stand against the tempest of opposition and wrath.

Those who have been warned of the events before them are not to sit in calm expectation of a coming storm, but are comforting themselves that the Lord will shelter their faithful ones in the day of trouble.

We are to be as men waiting for their Lord, not in idle expectancy, but in earnest work.

And if you don't have a job, get involved in your local church.

It's amazing if you just go and and and introduce people as they walk in the door and you just become part of the greeter group.

I mean, it's amazing how many people walk into the church and are never talked to.

Those of you that don't have time to work in a ministry.

You know, for a long time, I was always of the mindset, if you work hard, you can make your ministry work.

So we worked really hard and we sold DVDs.

I was like, I'm not gonna ask people for donations.

And you know, God actually convicted me of that.

We went and sat down some philanthropists and they had helped some of the other big ministries do some things.

And she sat down and the lady that we spoke to, Keith and I, and she said, tell me how do you guys solicit donations?

And so I told her, and she said, you need to take that out of your mind right now.

And she said, don't treat God's work like that, because what you're doing is you're robbing somebody of a blessing, of them helping some other ministry, and if you don't you don't want to ask for help, then those people that couldn't pick up a video camera and go out and make that thing, that's their way of entering into the work is to help support it.

And praise God, he has taken care of our ministry and grown us and helped us with everything that we need when we need it.

And it's amazing when you take your hands off the steering wheel, you watch God work.

And so I just wanna tell you that, that we are coming into a day and age that is very It's going to be very Difficult for a lot of people and so I think that it doesn't take a far stretch of the mind that You have seen the King of the North and the King of the South warring against each other, have you not?

We can see this tug of war that's happening in our world.

Look at some of these things that have been a conversation on the world stage.

These are conversations that we see the whole world is beginning to grapple with some of these things, and you know what?

They're publicly talking about these conversations, and they are wanting and needing information.

And if we in the church only speak to people in the church, then there's a whole lot of people out there that may never ever get the right picture.

But if more of us will lovingly embrace them and talk with them and share information with them.

You'd be amazed at how many people have a different mindset than probably most everybody in this room and in a cordial conversation would engage with you.

We've seen this, you know, the Olympics, them making fun of God.

I take a look at that and I go here's my opportunity to talk about God Right.

Here's my opportunity to bring up the proper perspective and to open my mouth about these kind of things and you're seeing this conflict all over the world and we know, we know the Bible verses, many of us could probably quote them by heart, right?

When we see this or this or this, we know that the end is near.

We know that we see wars and rumors of wars and things all over the world that are happening.

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The War for Your Mind

03 Digital Evangelism

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