Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Watering Down Sin

In this week's reading I was both encouraged and fascinated with Carl Trueman's book. I found what he had to say about the church and culture to be very accurate. In this chapter he talks about the "watering down of Christian standards of behavior and ironically thought." (pg. 97) I really appreciate the fact that he mentions this mainly because I feel to often Christians try to justify what they do and their reason for whatever they have done.  Trueman uses movie watching as an example of this type of act. Many people believe that a Christian can watch any movie as long as they watch it with a critical Christian eye, however, there is no Biblical proof to justify this kind of statement. Watching a movie filled with sin is still sin. You cannot say that watching it with a "critical Christian eye" changes the sin in which you are indulging yourself in. Even today movies have changed in their rating and yet we have just slowly been sucked in, and have become to comfortable with a "rationalization for watching whatever they (we) like without having to feel guilty about it." (pg. 98) My question is this: How does the "watering down of Christian standards of behavior and thought" affect our churches and worship settings? How does this or how should this affect our personal lives?

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