How can Christians have an impact on our culture if we are constantly leaving it…?
Every new medium for communication and entertainment is viewed suspiciously by mainstream Christianity.
When Rock n’ Roll was new, it was an abomination.
When Movies were new they were evil.
When the Internet was new Christians said that it was the tool of the devil.
(I admit there is bad in some of these things, but they are not bad in and of themselves.) Look at Cain in the Bible: He brought God an offering of vegatables from the ground and God was not pleased by it. If mainstream Christians were around they would have outlawed vegatables, and said that it was evil and that they have no place in our lives, because of their wickedness…
God never said that vegatables were bad though!
And he never said Rock was bad: (that’s why this song was written!)
He never said that Movies were bad.
and He never said that the Internet was bad either.
That is why I write…
Get out into the world, and create and speak out in ways that will be understood…
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November 6, 2007 at 8:09 pm
curtismchale
It is not the stuff itself but the use of it that makes it good or evil. It is not $ but the love of $. You are not wise because you know lots, wisdom is the application of knowledge.
November 8, 2007 at 8:55 pm
tim austin
I think the debate here is not (blanket statement) these things are bad. But it is to what extent are these things used. We shouldnt be filled by these things, these things in and of themselves arnt bad. The excess of these things is what is bad. The only thing we as christians should be filled with is the Holy Spirit. To be filled with anything else is sin.
November 12, 2007 at 8:42 pm
curtismchale
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