to seedplanter.... i agree with nearly all of what you said. but i don't see anywhere "God tealling us not to touch secular music, movies and books"...
indeed, though I am a Christian, I find it quite hard to imagine a world without secular books. I mean, where would we learn things? How would we be educated? I also enjoy many secular movies. In fact most religious movies I have seen are pretty crap to be honest. And while I can see why a lot of secular music is harmful, some of it is absoutely fine. I love a lot of secular music.
What we need is more Christians, tearing down the barriers between secular and Christian, and getting their hands dirty in the "real world". It's ridiculous the amount of "holier than thou" Christians I see, condeming people for superficial differences and pointless theological arguments that are not at all inmportant to the question of salvation.
to seedplanter.... i agree with nearly all of what you said. but i don't see anywhere "God tealling us not to touch secular music, movies and books"...
indeed, though I am a Christian, I find it quite hard to imagine a world without secular books. I mean, where would we learn things? How would we be educated? I also enjoy many secular movies. In fact most religious movies I have seen are pretty crap to be honest. And while I can see why a lot of secular music is harmful, some of it is absoutely fine. I love a lot of secular music.
What we need is more Christians, tearing down the barriers between secular and Christian, and getting their hands dirty in the "real world". It's ridiculous the amount of "holier than thou" Christians I see, condeming people for superficial differences and pointless theological arguments that are not at all inmportant to the question of salvation.
as one secular band put it recently:
"where is the love?"