television entertainment more dangerous than guns!

good samaritan · #1 02-22-2018, 04:51 PM

I haven't been around here much in a while, but some of the recent posts concerning the UPCI's articles of faith have triggered some thoughts. The entertainment industry has more to do with violence than anything else. People are blaming guns for much of the violence, while people are constantly being entertained by shootouts, murder, adultary, and fornication.

People are battleing the devil in their minds and they wonder why, when they have filled their minds with garbage. Guns are not the cause of violence, it is the wicked hearts of this generation. It is time people start identifying the wicked appetites they have.

LongBeachCA · #2 02-22-2018, 05:07 PM

Very well said.

FlamingZword · #3 02-22-2018, 11:37 PM

Early on I advocated for Christians to produce good movies.
But since most Christians abandoned Hollywood, well we get only movies made by sinners, what do you expect.

Until we Christians return to Hollywood and transform it, it will continue to produce garbage.

Amanah · #4 02-23-2018, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by good samaritan

I haven't been around here much in a while, but some of the recent posts concerning the UPCI's articles of faith have triggered some thoughts. The entertainment industry has more to do with violence than anything else. People are blaming guns for much of the violence, while people are constantly being entertained by shootouts, murder, adultary, and fornication.

People are battleing the devil in their minds and they wonder why, when they have filled their minds with garbage. Guns are not the cause of violence, it is the wicked hearts of this generation. It is time people start identifying the wicked appetites they have.

Amen.

Amanah · #5 02-23-2018, 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Early on I advocated for Christians to produce good movies.
But since most Christians abandoned Hollywood, well we get only movies made by sinners, what do you expect.

Until we Christians return to Hollywood and transform it, it will continue to produce garbage.

there are some decent movies being made now, like Courageous

Amanah · #6 02-23-2018, 01:08 AM

and there are some history based movies that Hollywood puts out that are worth watching

Amanah · #7 02-23-2018, 01:15 AM

a movie about the pentagon papers and how The Post exposed the lies of the Government

consapente89 · #8 02-23-2018, 06:23 AM

Recently had a young lady in our church come to me about a Christian movie that she had watched and asked if this was something that was a good alternative to the kinds of things she used to watch. I tried to be slow to answer, remembering the process that God brought me through to purge me of these things. My answer was this "I went through the same process but I found I had to move completely away from Hollywood entertainment because the "Christian and Educational" material created an appetite that took me back to the same old smut I used to watch."

If you are watching "Christian and Educational movies" now, it won't be long before you are watching television with everyone else. Mainstream Pentecost has proven this when they started allowing "monitors" for certain limited types of content. Now the majority are watching whatever floats across their screen. "Christian content" in a Hollywood style film is Satan's bait. How many Pentecostals went to the movie theatre for the first time in their lives to see the Passion of the Christ? Even more curious...how many went back later on to see something else?

We need to get back to the Old Time Pentecost and Old Time Convictions that made this movement a power house!

consapente89 · #9 02-23-2018, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by consapente89

Recently had a young lady in our church come to me about a Christian movie that she had watched and asked if this was something that was a good alternative to the kinds of things she used to watch. I tried to be slow to answer, remembering the process that God brought me through to purge me of these things. My answer was this "I went through the same process but I found I had to move completely away from Hollywood entertainment because the "Christian and Educational" material created an appetite that took me back to the same old smut I used to watch."

If you are watching "Christian and Educational movies" now, it won't be long before you are watching television with everyone else. Mainstream Pentecost has proven this when they started allowing "monitors" for certain limited types of content. Now the majority are watching whatever floats across their screen. "Christian content" in a Hollywood style film is Satan's bait. How many Pentecostals went to the movie theatre for the first time in their lives to see the Passion of the Christ? Even more curious...how many went back later on to see something else?

We need to get back to the Old Time Pentecost and Old Time Convictions that made this movement a power house!

Oh by the way, it was in an all night prayer meeting after I spoke with this young lady that God started moving on her mom and laying a deep burden on her heart for her children. The next day God gave her a vision of her son sitting in the living room watching television while demons were coming through the screen and putting their filthy hands on the boy. The television is now gone! She recently testified "and we're not watching it on our cell phones or computer either!"

Amanah · #10 02-23-2018, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by consapente89

Recently had a young lady in our church come to me about a Christian movie that she had watched and asked if this was something that was a good alternative to the kinds of things she used to watch. I tried to be slow to answer, remembering the process that God brought me through to purge me of these things. My answer was this "I went through the same process but I found I had to move completely away from Hollywood entertainment because the "Christian and Educational" material created an appetite that took me back to the same old smut I used to watch."

If you are watching "Christian and Educational movies" now, it won't be long before you are watching television with everyone else. Mainstream Pentecost has proven this when they started allowing "monitors" for certain limited types of content. Now the majority are watching whatever floats across their screen. "Christian content" in a Hollywood style film is Satan's bait. How many Pentecostals went to the movie theatre for the first time in their lives to see the Passion of the Christ? Even more curious...how many went back later on to see something else?

We need to get back to the Old Time Pentecost and Old Time Convictions that made this movement a power house!