After watching American Idol last night, I am ashamed to admit that it has taken me this long to finally ban the show from my house. It is the embodiment of worldliness and is inconsistent with a Biblical worldview. For some time now I have had reservations about allowing my family to watch the show, but they liked it and I am cautious not to be a “tyrant” of legalism in the name of holiness.
However, the line must be drawn here. Everything from the songs that are chosen, outfits of the contestants (and judges), remarks of the judges, and particularly the guest performers go against what I know that Bible to teach about believers coming out and being separate from the world. But really, could I expect anything else? I mean, American Idol is the world’s party and for them to behave any other way would be impossible.
It is not a family show and it is not really a singing competition anymore either. As I watched it with my family last night, I said to my oldest daughter, “Abby, this is a picture of the broad way that Jesus talked about in Matthew 7.” Many will go this way. I do not want my family to be on the broad way. We belong to the narrow, the hard, the tight way — the way that Jesus said few will find.
American Idol does not represent that “way.” Other changes are no doubt soon to come.
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Separating From the World
After watching American Idol last night, I am ashamed to admit that it has taken me this long to finally ban the show from my house. It is the embodiment of worldliness and is inconsistent with a Biblical worldview. For some time now I have had reservations about allowing my family to watch the show, but they liked it and I am cautious not to be a “tyrant” of legalism in the name of holiness.
However, the line must be drawn here. Everything from the songs that are chosen, outfits of the contestants (and judges), remarks of the judges, and particularly the guest performers go against what I know that Bible to teach about believers coming out and being separate from the world. But really, could I expect anything else? I mean, American Idol is the world’s party and for them to behave any other way would be impossible.
It is not a family show and it is not really a singing competition anymore either. As I watched it with my family last night, I said to my oldest daughter, “Abby, this is a picture of the broad way that Jesus talked about in Matthew 7.” Many will go this way. I do not want my family to be on the broad way. We belong to the narrow, the hard, the tight way — the way that Jesus said few will find.
American Idol does not represent that “way.” Other changes are no doubt soon to come.
Tags: holiness, sanctification, the world
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 1:25 pm and is filed under Commentary, Family. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.