To me it seems like it would require a healthy disregard for the goings-on in the world - being in-touch with it (because there's no way to completely leave it, and we shouldn't want to do that absolutely yet anyway) but sort of out-of-touch at the same time. As I think about what the church has done in the past as it took a lead role, I think about things like missionary movements, caring for the poor or others in difficult situations, etc. This whole media thing is a brand new challenge that today's church has to wrestle with. How should the church be involved in the media? Is being a Christian artist the same thing as being a teacher who is a Christian or a dentist who is a Christian? My thought is that we need to be very careful about the criticism that we dish out to those in Christian media, while at the same time recognizing that there are some serious issues in what has been done so far. On one hand we Christians can take ourselves so seriously that we kill off all of the creativity in Christian artists, and on the other hand there is the danger of simply seeing Christian media as another industry, another playing field, in which to rise to the top. I hope to get to some more specific thoughts about how the church ought to deal/lead with media, but right now I'm just cautious. Any other thoughts out there?

The core issue here isn't whether to use media (movies, music, etc.), it's worldliness. What is our description of worldliness? And as a young believer, I don't have a concise answer for that at this time. I would submit it is striving in all things not to be like the world; "avoiding all appearances of evil." Now, as to the specifics, I can't answer that, and I believe it is between an individual and God as to where one stands on that issue. I would say this: why do we need to replace the things of the world (i.e. "bibleman" or worldly music with christian lyrics, or whatever)? Why not just do away with them? old things are passed away… We have a new song, so what is the need to have a "sub-culture"? I would submit that it is because of the rampant apostacy in the church, that brings in people who aren't even truely saved; and thus not having that disgust for the world that true believers have (or at least should have), they do just what the world does, only a little farther behind to ease their conciences.

I don't appologize for statements. I can do no other after reading an article like this one. Christian's are supposed to be loving and kind, but compromise should be unheard of among God's people, and that is what has happened: The church has slowly given up it's doctrine and values bit by bit, until there is nothing but whitened seplecures filled with dead men's bones.