This shift is having profound effects on our culture and our preaching, which need to be taken into account. A basic goal of preaching is to bring the Christian gospel into conversation with each new generation, so the gospel's relevance for all generations can be appreciated. As preachers, we need to find ways for the abiding message to speak through the images and concepts of our own day. In today's climate, a basic way of doing this is to make greater use of narrative sermons and imagery in our preaching. Another way is to make greater use of popular movies.
Many movies model real life situations, even if the movies themselves are fiction.
In my experience, people hunger to see the Christian gospel as it relates to their modern lives. That hunger extends even to their leisure-time movie going and videotape rentals. You might wish to portray, in narrative fashion, a significant scene from a movie. I did that in a sermon on the great worth and importance of individual human beings to God, and the subsequent need for us to hold other individuals in that same high regard. Of course, given concerns about language, violence, and sex in movies, one needs to use discretion in the choice of movies to talk about from the pulpit.