I tend to disagree. I am amazed by the things you watch and listen to, and come on AFF and defend. I wonder what kind of lives the people you pastor live. Is it run of the mill American Carnal Christianity?
NOW, I know your a smart guy, but did you learn so much about grace and liberty that it turned into a license to sin?
License to sin? You think it is a sin to watch AI?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Just be careful, Jason. What one person considers untouchable, another has no issue with. The New Testament is full of admonitions about this. It's the way "Legalism" gets started.....me enforcing my ideals of limitations, on others. Eventually, how far do you go with it? What's watchable and what's not? It can get really messy.
NOW, this is way off base. Legalism gets started when someone teaches something and enforces it on others without proper scriptural principles.
Saying someone can't wear red, can't own a TV, can't play baseball, etc. Just some made up junk.
However, "what one person considers untouchable, andother has no issue with." Well, people on this board have already come out in favor of the Twilight vampire series, others have defended Saw movies, and the like. Where is the line?
If I admonish the church NOT to watch porn, am I imposing legalism upon them? What if some claim it's only natural or educational? If I apply the same thing to movies such as Chainsaw massacre, Saw, and the like, am I out of bonds, am I become a legalist for teaching them not to watch others be chopped to shreds?
MAybe AI is okay. I don't personally watch it, but I haven't preached against it. I do believe that there is some variation on personal convictions, but you know as well as I that everyone must draw a line somewhere.
Why is your line okay, and mine legalism?
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"Resolved: That all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved, secondly: That whether or not anyone else does, I will." ~Jonathan Edwards
"The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ." ~Dietrich Bonheoffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
License to sin? You think it is a sin to watch AI?
Not necessarily, but I believe it is a sin to watch some things. And to listen to some things (under the power of our own will).
I don't label shows in themselves sinful or not, but I judge entertainment (movies, TV, internet, radio, magainzes/books) by Phillipians 4:8
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"Resolved: That all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved, secondly: That whether or not anyone else does, I will." ~Jonathan Edwards
"The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ." ~Dietrich Bonheoffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
I tend to disagree. I am amazed by the things you watch and listen to, and come on AFF and defend. I wonder what kind of lives the people you pastor live. Is it run of the mill American Carnal Christianity?
NOW, I know your a smart guy, but did you learn so much about grace and liberty that it turned into a license to sin?
Jason, come on. Are you serious? I watch American Idol. Is that problematic for you? I liked the singing of Adam Lambert. Is that problematic for you? Which of those two things is "American Carnal Christianity" that is giving people a "license to sin?"
And the bolded....You're calling into question the personal character of people in the church I pastor simply because I watch American Idol and like one of the singers? How did you connect those two dots?
NOW, this is way off base. Legalism gets started when someone teaches something and enforces it on others without proper scriptural principles.
Saying someone can't wear red, can't own a TV, can't play baseball, etc. Just some made up junk.
However, "what one person considers untouchable, andother has no issue with." Well, people on this board have already come out in favor of the Twilight vampire series, others have defended Saw movies, and the like. Where is the line?
If I admonish the church NOT to watch porn, am I imposing legalism upon them? What if some claim it's only natural or educational? If I apply the same thing to movies such as Chainsaw massacre, Saw, and the like, am I out of bonds, am I become a legalist for teaching them not to watch others be chopped to shreds?
MAybe AI is okay. I don't personally watch it, but I haven't preached against it. I do believe that there is some variation on personal convictions, but you know as well as I that everyone must draw a line somewhere.
Why is your line okay, and mine legalism?
When you say, "N.O.W., you're way off base", you should add, "In my opinion" because I certainly disagree with you. How in the world can you equivocate "Chain Saw Massacre" and "Porn" with "American Idol"??
I'm saying that if you don't believe you should watch American Idol, then don't watch it. Just don't expect me to refrain. If you do expect me to, that's legalism.
Jason, come on. Are you serious? I watch American Idol. Is that problematic for you? I liked the singing of Adam Lambert. Is that problematic for you? Which of those two things is "American Carnal Christianity" that is giving people a "license to sin?"
And the bolded....You're calling into question the personal character of people in the church I pastor simply because I watch American Idol and like one of the singers? How did you connect those two dots?
Doesn't sound like Jason is the one with a problematic issue.
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Today pull up the little weeds,
The sinful thoughts subdue,
Or they will take the reins themselves
And someday master you. --Anon.
The most deadly sins do not leap upon us, they creep up on us.
You think it is a sin to watch AI?
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