Wholesome Entertainment

[JohnD]

How about Church service?

Have you seen how people dress and act in Church?

20 years ago I was warning believers about being too much like the world. I got castigated by OUR people for simply showing what THE BIBLE says.

 

[JohnD]

Paul (especially in Romans chapter 7) spells out the war that rages within us (the spirit versus the flesh).

While under residual influence of the spirit we may for a time be repulsed or embarrassed by worldly desires in ourselves. I say this not to get us to go easy on ourselves for being human... quite the opposite... be aware of this in us all, beware of it, and always be on your guard lest you allow the relentless evil in our flesh misguide us as we are lulled into false senses of security and we end up in sin over our heads.

{Insert fire and brimstone sermon here}

Gimme that ol' time religion...

It's just a little naughty...

I can handle it...

No one is looking...

...oh my Lord! How did I end up in all this evil?

All of us are susceptible to this in this realm and it must needs be this way till this realm is destroyed and the new heaven-earth is raised in its place... because there are souls yet to be won to Christ. When they are come in, then the end will come and the new beginning will be upon us.

...just took time out to hold my kitty cat... in the midst of the seriousness of a drastic truth as this, it's nice to stop and give a little one who loves you a hug.

Just be sober and aware of the potential wickedness in us all.

 

[Kenny_ms]

So basically you are saying hug your cat and don't do anything that might make you sin....

BTW, I hug my cat most everyday. As for the other, not nearly that simple....maybe one day it will be.

 

[Cturtle]

How about Church service?

Have you seen how people dress and act in Church?

20 years ago I was warning believers about being too much like the world. I got castigated by OUR people for simply showing what THE BIBLE says.

This is how the devil started to desensitize people (get them to desire to be like the world)....and leads to the great deception in 2 Thessalonians 2 another verse that is the beginning of the great deception is luke 19:26 He replied, I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one that has nothing, even what they do have will be taken away.

 

[JohnD]

Yep. Used to be cities had a red light district (before the computer and television made it possible to have the district in your own home). And pretty much everywhere you go in the cities is a red light district anymore...

But to satisfy your baser urges one had to go to the red light district to buy or watch porn or employ prostitutes buy drugs etc. Back then it could be said as a sad testimonial to the waning influence and slipping morals of the Church that "the acceptable fashions 20 years into the future are now on display... in the red light district."

Sad but too true.

 

[jeff77]

How about Church service?

Have you seen how people dress and act in Church?

20 years ago I was warning believers about being too much like the world. I got castigated by OUR people for simply showing what THE BIBLE says.

How are people supposed to dress in church?

 

[Kenny_ms]

Have you seen how people dress and act in Church?

I haven't been to a conventional church in quit some time so, just curious, how are they dressing?

And on how they act and dress both, are we talking all churches here and if not, which one/ones?

 

[gracenote]

Aren't we getting off the subject here just a tetch?
Isn't this thread about finding wholesome or godly things to enjoy via media resources?

I found a documentary (not for young children at all) called "Stuck" over at Netflix. They may have it at Amazon as well, altho' I have yet to check.
It is about international adoption laws. It is very well made and sensitive. It does not attach too much positive thought to the way governments tend to handle such things, except in extreme natural disaster type cases.
I saw nothing in it offensive to Christ other than unnecessary struggling and suffering of the young in foreign lands. There is more than one happy ending. I cried a little. I could not stop watching it.
At YouTube, there is a pleasantly old fashioned sort of movie, made in the days before Liz Taylor became less healthy to watch. Life With Father.
My guess is, it's too straight laced or sweet for Netflix to want to bother about.
William Powell plays the title role, and is very grumpily funny in this one. It does mention both Episcopal and Methodist churches as the two churches brought into the story line. That's historically accurate for the era and area of the country. This might make some less glad to see such a picture.
Baptism is a portion of it, as well--altho' we never actually get to see the baptismal font.
It is very New York upper-middle crust of the 1880's, with middle class injected in through relationships with cousins. Irene Dunne stars as Powell's beloved wife. The children of this marriage, all of them boys, are fun to watch, and very natural. Each in his own way contributes to the story.
Taylor is the younger cousin, and very pretty in her teenage girlish 1880's attire, bonnet and all. The script is based upon a real story, written in life by the eldest of the father's children.
Despite a few more minor things, I like this picture.
I offer it here, or any prospective viewer may find it at YouTube under the title (use their search engine):
LIFE WITH FATHER (1947) William Powell - Irene Dunne - Elizabeth Taylor

Here it is for anyone interested

 

[Miss Spaulding]

^ I've seen that one twice I think. It's pretty cute.

 

[Kidron]

If no one has posted this yet, then, i hope this site helps you review a secular movie you are interested in seeing so that you are not trapped in the Theater thinking...."OMG,".
Here is the Christian Movie Review site link in case you are not familiar with it already.

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/

 

[JohnD]

How are people supposed to dress in church?

Um, with dignity and respect for the Lord. Farmers who only have the simplest attire can come in clean overalls etc.

Even flip flops and tank tops and bikinis and micro mini skirts, in some settings are okay.

But when the intent is to draw attention to ones' self and in so doing drawing attention away from the Lord even three piece suits are wrong.

Point is, Jeff, when we come to worship / prayer / teaching services our full attention should be on the Lord God.

 

[Miss Spaulding]

Um, with dignity and respect for the Lord. Farmers who only have the simplest attire can come in clean overalls etc.

Even flip flops and tank tops and bikinis and micro mini skirts, in some settings are okay.

But when the intent is to draw attention to ones' self and in so doing drawing attention away from the Lord even three piece suits are wrong.

Point is, Jeff, when we come to worship / prayer / teaching services our full attention should be on the Lord God.

This is a thread on wholesome entertainment for Christians to watch, so I think you're on the wrong thread.

 

[Miss Spaulding]

If no one has posted this yet, then, i hope this site helps you review a secular movie you are interested in seeing so that you are not trapped in the Theater thinking...."OMG,".
Here is the Christian Movie Review site link in case you are not familiar with it already.

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/

Yeah, this is what I always use. Occasionally you'll get someone who gives an accurate and pretty detailed content review on IMDb.com, but I only use that as my second option if the movie I'd like to see hasn't been reviewed yet on Spotlight.

 

[Kidron]

Yeah, this is what I always use. Occasionally you'll get someone who gives an accurate and pretty detailed content review on IMDb.com, but I only use that as my second option if the movie I'd like to see hasn't been reviewed yet on Spotlight.

Yes,
i have noticed that i tend to be a bit more willing to realize that any Hollywood movie is not going to be anything but that, no matter the Rating, and sometimes i feel Christians who review secular movies and say things like...."well, i was not expecting".
I mean c'mon.
You were not "expecting" a Hollywood movie, made by a God-Christ rejecting industry to offend you?
Plz grow up

 

[JohnD]

This is a thread on wholesome entertainment for Christians to watch, so I think you're on the wrong thread.

My bad. I did not with my comment intend to derail another's thread. Mods can move or delete as they see fit.

 

[JohnD]

Downton Abbey is the surprise for me. I passed it over all these years thinking it was another PBS quality show but it is good!

 

[gracenote]

If no one has posted this yet, then, i hope this site helps you review a secular movie you are interested in seeing so that you are not trapped in the Theater thinking...."OMG,".
Here is the Christian Movie Review site link in case you are not familiar with it already.

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/

Thanks for that link! I will check into it!

 

[gracenote]

Um, with dignity and respect for the Lord. Farmers who only have the simplest attire can come in clean overalls etc.

Even flip flops and tank tops and bikinis and micro mini skirts, in some settings are okay.

But when the intent is to draw attention to ones' self and in so doing drawing attention away from the Lord even three piece suits are wrong.

Point is, Jeff, when we come to worship / prayer / teaching services our full attention should be on the Lord God.

I once dressed up for church every Sunday. I later came to dress a bit more casually as I wore a choir robe over my attire, and this acted as a sort of uniform, and was warm besides!
as long as we are covered where we oughtta be, who cares? I doubt the Lord thought of clothes all that highly except in terms of modesty or health.
I like to dress down when at the movies, but lost of people used to dress up for movie and travel time not so long ago.
Nowadays, we see kinds at the movies, or in church, or during travel, wearing just about anything from sweats and bunny slippers to 3 piece suits.
:shades

 

[JohnD]

Okay.

Well, suppose I took the desensitized point of view (held by whoever... no one here being singled out in particular) and began posting images of females in short dresses with their legs crossed. If it's perfectly okay to dress this way in Church service to God, why would that be wrong of me to post the pictures here? Or guys without shirts on etc.

I appreciated CFnet and the holiness here, but it and no other internet forum is like unto entering into a time of worship and praise and instruction in the Word as is the assembling of the Church.

 

[JohnD]

I am not advocating dressing up and certainly not excluding those who cannot dress any other way than rags, shorts, overalls you name it. The point being made here is bringing in the desensitized lower moral standards into the Church setting.