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To: SandWMan
We are NOT called to be “relevant”, we are called to stand apart, to preach the Gospel, and not worry about whether or not we “fit in”.

We are called to set the agenda, to establish the dominant paradigms of truth and beauty. When the church sponsored artists, we got the great cathedrals, the Sistine Chapel, etc. Government-sponsored art gave us a guy with a bullwhip up his butt.

42 posted on 01/16/2009 1:28:55 PM PST by RJR_fan (Winners and lovers shape the future. Whiners and losers TRY TO PREDICT IT.)
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To: RJR_fan

To make movies or TV shows, books etc. that have moral messages and obvious Christian leanings is all fine and good, and I applaud the efforts of anyone who can accomplish such a feat, but to feel that we must come up with a “Christian version” of every worldly pleasure (exemplified in so-called “Christian Rock”), which so many think we must do to be “relevant”, or “to get the young people into church” is just wrong. At best, a shallow faith is the result, and at worst, it is just destructive.


43 posted on 01/16/2009 1:39:22 PM PST by SandWMan (End Women's Suffrage Now!)
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