Because I listen to Van Halen, watch Quantum Leap reruns and love Indiana Jones movies to death as well as Edgar Alan Poe literature I don't feel these things are entirely bankrupt.

They display human creatvity and reflect the glory of God whether they mean to or not by the fact intelligent beings were given such creativity to create music and poetry and art and adventurous story telling.

We are permitted to enjoy the pagan's culture that is not scraping the bottom of human depravity, we are afterall human and have inate desires and instincts that manifest themselves in pagans and believers alike, not just the sin nature but the grace of humanity for the sun rises and sets over us both.

I can enjoy the world's sports and escapism and I'll leave it to the pagan to be absorbed and ruled by them, there is a difference and with our freedom in Christ we can enjoy the likes of Steven Spielberg, Arthur Conan Doyle and Eric Clapton guilt free even though they are not believers themselves.

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Travis Speegle
Redeemer Presbyterian, PCA (Waco, Tx)
Pacific Cross Roads, PCA (Los Angeles, CA)


"When it comes to trustworthy theologians one can usually honor the rule of thumb that the deader the better."-Dr. John Hannah, DTS (of all places)