Put Up or Shut Up
This Week's Theme: Overcoming Compulsions
Charles Colson
Tuesday, October 17, 2000
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Key Bible Verse: But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people (Ephesians 5:22).
Bonus Reading:Titus 2:11-14
Dining with a major television network president, Chuck Colson said that the networks' programming offended Christians and suggested it would be good business to air wholesome family entertainment. "After all," he added, "there are 50 million born-again Christians out there." Colson recalls:
He looked at me quizzically. "What you are suggesting is that we run more programs like, say, Chariots of Fire?"
"Yes!" I exclaimed.
"Well," he said, "CBS ran it as a prime-time movie just a few months ago. Are you aware of the ratings?" That night, he explained, NBC showed On Golden Pond; it was #1 with 25.2 percent of all TV sets tuned in. Close behind was My Mother's Secret Life, a show about a mother hiding her past as a prostitute. It was #2 with 25.1 percent. A distant thirda big money loserwas Chariots of Fire11.8 percent.
"So," my companion concluded, "where are your 50 million born-again Christians, Mr. Colson?"
Studies show that the viewing habits of Christians are no different than those of non-Christians!
Charles Colson in Who Speaks for God? Respond:
Have you aligned your viewing with your values? Thought to Apply:
We are not to be isolated [from the world] but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
Vance Havner (late preacher and evangelist)
Augustine (Christian leader, 4th century)
Adapted from Who Speaks for God? (Crossway, 1985).
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