Comments on: The Decreasing Discernment of the Dollar http://humbleoradio.com/-2-2/the-decreasing-discernment-of-the-dollar/ Live Interactive Talk Radio on the Internet Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:46:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor http://humbleoradio.com/-2-2/the-decreasing-discernment-of-the-dollar/#comment-103 Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor Wed, 07 May 2008 01:55:42 +0000 http://humbleoradio.com/ministry/the-decreasing-discernment-of-the-dollar/#comment-103 I suffer the same problem, Sue...not because I'm not conservative evangelical, but because I'm *too* conservative evangelical. I'm not an anti-art KJV-only skirt-wearer, though I have friends who've chosen that stance, and I respect them as much as my neo-pagan friends. However, the question is this: Can I address the fact that some denominations are inherently structured to foster spiritual abuse due to their doctrinal statements? Nope. CBA requires that we appeal to the broadest audience possible. Can I address the fact that some denominations, and some churches within denominations, have added so much trimming to the gospel, or taken so much away from it, that people can no longer find Jesus Christ amongst it all? Nope. Specific beliefs are out. A general feel-good haze is in. It's entertainment as a substitute for pot. I suffer the same problem, Sue…not because I’m not conservative evangelical, but because I’m *too* conservative evangelical. I’m not an anti-art KJV-only skirt-wearer, though I have friends who’ve chosen that stance, and I respect them as much as my neo-pagan friends.

However, the question is this: Can I address the fact that some denominations are inherently structured to foster spiritual abuse due to their doctrinal statements? Nope. CBA requires that we appeal to the broadest audience possible. Can I address the fact that some denominations, and some churches within denominations, have added so much trimming to the gospel, or taken so much away from it, that people can no longer find Jesus Christ amongst it all? Nope. Specific beliefs are out. A general feel-good haze is in. It’s entertainment as a substitute for pot.

]]> By: Sue Dent http://humbleoradio.com/-2-2/the-decreasing-discernment-of-the-dollar/#comment-102 Sue Dent Tue, 06 May 2008 19:14:42 +0000 http://humbleoradio.com/ministry/the-decreasing-discernment-of-the-dollar/#comment-102 Fancy that! The same thing is happening in the "Christian" bookstores with books. Two gatekeeper affiliations for conservative evangelicals, CBA and ECPA, have set up camp and are pretty much the only books you'll find in every major "Christian" bookstore. What's worse is that affiliated publishers only write for a very tight niche market with guidelines and writing conventions that serve ONLY Christian evangelicals. No other Christian author stands a chance--at least not in a "Christian" bookstore. Isn't life grand! Fancy that! The same thing is happening in the “Christian” bookstores with books. Two gatekeeper affiliations for conservative evangelicals, CBA and ECPA, have set up camp and are pretty much the only books you’ll find in every major “Christian” bookstore. What’s worse is that affiliated publishers only write for a very tight niche market with guidelines and writing conventions that serve ONLY Christian evangelicals. No other Christian author stands a chance–at least not in a “Christian” bookstore.

Isn’t life grand!

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