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My Catholic friend Brenda in her facebook blog discussed whether protestants have Instrumentalized Christianity.  Sorry to those of you who cannot view her post. She doesn't post her controversial posts to her normal blog.

If the main point of Christianity is simply to bring others into Christianity through conversion and evangelism then it could be accurately said that Christianity is mearly a tool of self perpetuation.

But, the core of the Christian life is not evangelism. Jesus said that we are to "Love the Lord your God with all of our heart, soul and mind and to love our neighbor as yourself." Evangelism is tightly linked with both of these values but should not be confused with the values themselves.

We show love to God by obeying his command to seek and save the lost. We show love to our neighbor by pulling him from the fires of hell.  While these are important and possibly even primary ways to show love they are by no means the only ways to exhibit our love toward God and others. Life provides a multitude of ways in which we can and indeed ought to love God. Evangelism is one of those ways.

One of the things that brings evangelism to the top for many people is that in one simple act you fulfill both the greatest and second greatest commandments and thus in a way the entire old Testament. Though evangelism you also amplify the glory God receives as people praise who formally scorned and love who they used to hate.

I am giving a talk at the CHEACT book fair about the dangers of Digital (Video & Computer) Gaming. I thought the following excerpt may be of interest to you.




One thing that mystifies me is how age seems so linked with media content.  If watching a movie with a sexually charged scene is wrong for a twelve year old why would it be ok for someone older? If watching someone turn red with blood after being hit by a flack cannon is wrong for a ten year old to watch why would that not be wrong for a thirty year old to watch?

Is the reason we don't allow children to watch bad content because we think it would damage their development? Or is it that we want to guard their purity? As sensible adults should we not also want to guard our purity? 

Some friends of mine take their children down to our local bar district to hand out tracts and share the Gospel. Their eight year old son will sometimes even open air preach and when he does people always stop to hear what someone so young has to say.

Others become very livid when they see the children in this den of iniquity. “How dare you bring your children to a place like this!” They say. I think what is happening is that the purity of the children revealing their own corruption. It shows the hypocrisy is the following thought pattern, “Getting drunk and sleeping around is wrong for a child but it is ok for me.”

If something is wrong is it not wrong regardless of age?

I am unaware of anywhere in scripture where any of God’s moral instructions are limited by physical age unless they pertain to a certain group such as the command that children obey their parrents. In fact, God seems to delight in using people considered either to old or to young to be able to do what He has called them to do.

Could you imagine God putting a PG-13 rating on the Song of Solomon? Or saying that the forth commandment only applies until someone turns 21. It sounds absurd because it goes against God’s nature. In Christ there is no man or woman, slave or free Jew nor gentile. I think it can be safely surmised from scriptural precedent that there is also no young or old before Him either. We all bare His image equally.

I am not saying that parents ought not use discretion. There is a difference between bad content and content too intense for small children. I don't think there is anything impure about the Passion of the Christ but I would understand why a parent may not want a small child to watch it because of the intensity I think most parents have the wisdom to tell the difference.


What do you think?