John Piper is one of my favorite Bible teachers. I just downloaded forty-plus hours of sermons of his onto my phone so I can listen as I return to doing regular exercise.
I appreciate his point here. I’ve been far too tolerant with myself about the things I let myself watch. Game of Thrones happens to not be one of them. I recently tried to watch the first episode of season 1 because so many people talk about how great it is. I couldn’t even finish that one.
But Christians do not just watch this stuff to fit in. We also watch because, like everyone else, we like to be entertained. I don’t think that is wrong innately (though I’m open to being proved wrong), but certainly no one disputes that it has the potential to become a Trojan horse these days. Seems like most Hollywood productions contain obligatory anti-Christian content.
However, there has been a trend lately to create more quality Christian films. I put the Kendrick brothers’ films in this category even if the production value is not on par with Hollywood. Perhaps the solution is for more Christians to spend time creating quality content versus just being consumers of it.
There are many who will mock Piper on this, even some on this forum. Some are ignorant and proud, thinking they are immune to being negatively influenced. Some are not even born-again Christians, so they’ve got bigger issues to worry about. Some consider themselves Christian but could care less about the heart of God on such issues.
Well, for what it is worth, the violence and sex is toned down once the show became much more popular somewhere in season 3...there is more “suggestive sex” but there is still some - just done in a different way.