GRORIFYING GOD AND ENGAGING ENTERTAINMENT


Believers are always demoralized by how little people pray and how much they enjoy being entertained by sin. Christian virtue is affected by their choices of entertainment such as viewing movies filled with violence, profanity and sexual immorality as long as they watch with no discernment. The question of entertainment is particularly pressing for parents who must nurture their children's vulnerable hearts and minds. It's the role of parents now to monitor their children at an early age before they get spoilt and make sure they don't spend too much time on social media platforms. No matter the form of entertainment that we are consuming, finding biblical wisdom for our entertainment age must involve answering two questions: when and how to engage

When to engage

Normally our heavenly Father wants His children to enjoy life. Enjoyment invariably involves entertainment, and scripture approves many of its forms. King Solomon says that earthy pleasures can't provide ultimate satisfaction but attests that they are appropriate in their place. Even Apostle Paul whose main mission was to proclaim the gospel to the ends of the earth, attended enough athletic contests to use running and boxing as metaphors for Christian life. Jesus is the creator of all things, and his common Grace enables unbelievers to produce and Christians to enjoy non-religious form of entertainment (Colossians1:15-20)  

Though we should be selective just as the Apostle Paul told the Corinthians that not everything that is lawful for me is helpful or liberating (1cor 6:12). Life is a series of moments

Leisure is a quick way to discover our highlight values, for what we do on evenings and weekends we tend to do for its own sake rather than for something else. We should invest some free time in entertainment because life should be enjoyed though we must not become merely passive consumers of other people's work.

How to engage

Again, King Solomon, says there is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what you planted. There is a time to create and a time to consume what was created. So, let's not give our most creative moments to passively consuming entertainment. A saying goes, time is money and therefore we should always use it appropriately to serve people for the glory of God and the benefits of our neighbours. God is passionate about purity because He is passionate about love. He commands us to be holy in our creation and consumption of entertainment (1 peter 1:16) because he wants us to love our neighbour as we love our selves. Using entertainment to stoke the embers of lust should be unimaginable to Christians for we know sin is the cause of death. Sin kills everyone and everything we have loved. Let's hate sin and refuse to be entertained by it again.

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