Trashy Music (was WELCOME)

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>>>>> "Kirk" == 00kmvanooteg  <00kmvanooteg@bsuvc.bsu.edu> writes:

    Kirk> The bottom line is that it does, in fact, require different
    Kirk> methods to reach different people with the truth.  However,
    Kirk> we should not compromise our position as Christians by
    Kirk> resorting to worldly mediums under the guise of reaching the
    Kirk> lost.  The Word of God still has the power to change
    Kirk> individuals.  When God calls us into His marvelous light we
    Kirk> must leave the things of this world behind, not try to
    Kirk> conform them into our lifestyle by applying the label
    Kirk> "christian" to them.

"Worldly mediums" is an interesting phrase that you use here.
However,the only mediums that I know of are worldly, in the sense that
they are not spiritual.  Prayer is spiritual.  Even witnessing and
preaching are worldly, insofar as they communicate in the worldly
medium of transverse compression waves of acoustic energy.  

Now we cannot reach the world through prayer alone.  Prayer is
certainly essential, and we cannot reach the world without it, but
sooner or later, someone somewhere has to use worldly mediums to reach
the world.  There simply is no other way.

Now, given that little diatribe, just what exactly did you mean by
"worldly mediums".  I know you had something in mind, but you did not
state it clearly.  How is one form of music worldly and another is
not?  Notice that I am not talking about the words, but the
instrumental music itself.  Please remember that cultural arguments
are not to be considered, because this gospel is even unto the
uttermost parts of the earth.

And for that matter, who played piano in the upper room? :-)

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