[OP_Carl]

It's a valid argument that completely ignores some key trivia:

Less than 1% of people watch "religious" television programming.

Approximately 95% of people who watch religious programming believe themselves to be already "saved."

Those who have gone before us into the world of television ministry, and fallen spectacularly, have indelibly muddied the waters. In the minds of the secular population, all TV preachers are fake, hypocritical money-grabbers. ALL of them.

We are only fooling ourselves if we think we can get on the airwaves and be perceived as different by the world. A good deal of what talent is on TV now was trained in the UPC.

Usually, people need to feel the presence and power of God, and the warm welcome of the saints, to be reached. Apostolic services on television will be borderline entertainment for the saints and the topic of abject ridicule for the unsaved.

In the end, television will merely consume resources of time, talent, energy, and lots of money that could have been used to greater effect building bible schools on missions fields - all the while stirring controversy and division to distract the congregation's attention from more important matters.