Do yourself a huge favor by reading this blog post by Chad Hall:
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2008/06/tuning_out_chri.html
He has some challenging thoughts concerning Christian radio! I agree with much of what he has to say.
Your reaction?
2 comments:
I have to shout out a hearty "amen!" to this article. Too often, it seems that Christians simply take something that the world does well and then baptize it, somehow making it "Christian". Elise and I have been watching "GospelTV" lately, and the requirements a musical artist have to meet to get their videos on are not too tough. Basically, if you're famous in the world and your song is "morally sound", then you're on! The gospel message of Jesus is so much more profound and demanding than that!
This post has really bothered me. I don't really agree with what he has to say about christian radio. I thought positive and encouraging were good things? I don' think the intent of klove is to be the main course of a persons spiritual diet. Personally I don't think I've ever seen it that way. I also don't think that everything christian has to be the main course. I imagine that there are more than a few positive and encouraging christian books on the shelf. They're probably not books one would recommend to build a persons spirituality and *gasp* they may even be amusing and/or sappy. I imagine the author would only have the goal in mind of providing christian entertainment to christian people. Is it wrong to just be entertained from time to time? I chose books, but I'm sure there are plenty of other forms of christian entertainment that are sappy or amusing or positive and encouraging. I do agree about the cruise and that is something that has always bothered me about klove. Not enough that I'd tune them out. I actually don't listen to klove very much anymore. I don't because I don't drive all that much anymore and I also don't like hearing the same songs over and over. For the same reasons I don't don't listen to very much radio at all. When I drive I mostly listen to my burned cd's. I do listen to some radio online, but it's at a site called pandora.com. I can pick the genre and hear all different songs. What bothers me the most about this post is that I've actually wasted time reading, thinking and writing about why something chistian is or isn't christian enough. In my opinion that is a ridiculous waste of time.
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