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Do You Glorify God in Your Movie Watching?
To just sit and bask in nudity, or bask in fifty f-words, or bask in a world view that is shot through with arrogance to the core, and enjoy it? Hmm. That seems to point to something going on in the heart … I think the main thing I’m saying there is, test your heart as to whether entertainment is defaulting to the world, or to something more wholesome.

Discussion

Wed, 08/25/10
What concerns me is the distinction between entertainment and cultural analysis. To watch something, to study the culture, learn from the culture, be more able to interact with unbelievers for the sake of the glory of Christ is one thing… And frankly, I have tasted it big time. I think today we are going to have to work at not being shaped by the world because the world has made its world view so scintillatingly attractive.

I agree that there are media offerings that one can read/view to study and learn from the culture, but watching http://www.kids-in-mind.com/z/zombieland.htm Zombieland so many times you can quote from it is not one of them. But I know some saints who believe that viewing such is not harmful to their spirit and are upset by the notion that it might affect their testimony. When it comes to media, I am not buying the idea that what may be harmful to some is not harmful to others when it comes to nudity, simulated sex, graphic gore/violence, and the excessive use of obscenities/profanities. This is not the proper interpretation of ‘Christian liberty’. Just like no one believes that men go to Hooter’s for the excellent food, it’s disingenuous at best to claim that one can view pornography in order to ‘study’ the culture.

I think American Christians have almost completely lost sight of what it means to “redeem the time”.

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