Chester Wright's Letter to the UPC!!!!!

Originally Posted by Rico

Really? Do a search on the word "kitten" and tell me what you find.

Hey "Preacher Hater" What do you find when you search "kitten?" Better learn to love a preacher - that's how you'll be saved.

[Thad]

Originally Posted by HappyPastor2

Seems that most folks that bring up Internet in this way are not so much saying that we should not use Internet - as they use it for a means of somehow trying to justify the use of television. Hmm...

I see that too and i don't understand why. no one can seem to get thru.
many believe(as I do) that the internet is the pathway into the anti christ system. So, certainly it is a LOT more dangerous. I agree with those who are preaching to get rid of the internet AND TV

Originally Posted by Ron

TV didn't bring "Moral Decay" it is just a "Mirror" that reflects "Society" as it is!

No, I am not saying TV is right, but Society as a whole has gotten so corrupt it is hard to tell the difference with TV & Society as a whole!

JMHO

TV has clearly contributed to the moral decay. It is not just a mirror. There are enough studies on this to choke a hippo. TV producers are motivated by ratings to produce something more shocking, raw and provoking than the other guy. The widespread use of television in our society has synergistically increased ungodliness in our society. To not see that is to be willfully ignorant or blind.

[chaotic_resolve]

Originally Posted by NobodyImportant

I've already read that mess.
Not worth the webspace IMO.
NI

Originally Posted by NobodyImportant

I call it that because his position IMO is very misled and his thinking is severely misguided.
Again, this is IMO.
NI

Of course, NI would be complimenting the website and CM would be a hero of the faith if he had written against television. But since NI doesn't like what CM wrote, NI bashes the article and the minister. Nice.

Originally Posted by HappyPastor2

Better learn to love a preacher - that's how you'll be saved.

Yah, not so much. Where do you get the idea that preachers are what save you?

Are you misinterpreting scripture: "...foolishness of preaching men would be saved?" Because it's speaking of an act - preaching . . . not a person.

The Grace, Mercy and Love of God is what's going to save me . . . not a preacher.

[Rico]

Originally Posted by HappyPastor2

Better learn to love a preacher - that's how you'll be saved.

Sounds good, but you don't have even one scripture that says I have to love a preacher to make heaven.

[Rico]

Originally Posted by HappyPastor2

TV has clearly contributed to the moral decay. It is not just a mirror. There are enough studies on this to choke a hippo. TV producers are motivated by ratings to produce something more shocking, raw and provoking than the other guy. The widespread use of television in our society has synergistically increased ungodliness in our society. To not see that is to be willfully ignorant or blind.

You guys are hilarious. You act as if the world was a wonderful place to live in before television was invented and all the world's evils can be attributed to tv programs. Life is much better today, even with tv, than it ever was in centuries gone by.

[tbpew]

IMO, a fellowship of member-ministers are wrestling with the implicit reality that, despite a strict expectation that their fellowship does not denominate from any kind of hierarchical structure of men, does in fact do so (albeit inadvertently) by means of the mandated code of non-participation with a media venue established within a membership manual.

The force or agency of divisiveness is not the TV issue, it is the imposition of a rule of conduct denominated from a higher up (the manual) that seems less and less appropriate by more and more member-ministers.

Don’t tell me what I can or can not do!
Do not assert any RULE over me that God has not appointed!

Seems to me that even in a member-minister, non-denominational, fellowship organization, will always have a "men RULING over men" as a divisive issue.

[South of I 90]

Originally Posted by Thad

I see that too and i don't understand why. no one can seem to get thru.
many believe(as I do) that the internet is the pathway into the anti christ system. So, certainly it is a LOT more dangerous. I agree with those who are preaching to get rid of the internet AND TV

Are you serious?

[South of I 90]

Originally Posted by Carpenter

Besides, I have to watch movies nowadays that are either chick flicks or those appropriate for a 6 year old with a precious spirit. That means we watch Movies like Cars, Cheaper by the Dozen II, Ant Bully, The Incredibles...and all those mushy kissy movies with no nudity...unless of course it is Jack Nicholson.

Have you seen "The Departed"??

[Twisp]

Originally Posted by Thad

I see that too and i don't understand why. no one can seem to get thru.
many believe(as I do) that the internet is the pathway into the anti christ system. So, certainly it is a LOT more dangerous. I agree with those who are preaching to get rid of the internet AND TV

I thought the UPCI's mantra/mission statement was to witness in any way possible.