tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012402701789191316.post1029204037182540702..comments2024-03-19T02:17:36.214-07:00Comments on Real Catholic Men: An Inconvenient Truth: The Christian EditionReal Catholic Menhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02522491284257805767noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012402701789191316.post-6630977848552823092007-12-30T18:03:00.000-08:002007-12-30T18:03:00.000-08:00Mr. Renshaw,As you point out, KFIS, 104.1 The Fish...Mr. Renshaw,<BR/><BR/>As you point out, KFIS, 104.1 The Fish does call itself a Christian music station, and they are imperfect. I agree. They do not represent Christ perfectly every day, and they do make mistakes. Many of them. I agree with you, but somehow I feel like we’ve just now knocked over a straw man together. It’s as if you’re painting a large building with about a gallon of paint. Everyone can see where you’ve painted in the first room, you have a valid point and we can all see it, but it tends to get a bit thin at the end as it stretches to cover all of the necessary ground. <BR/> <BR/>Salem Communications is a Christian broadcasting company. When I stop to think of the many ways that people make money in this country, I am glad that this company exists. As a profit generating company, they provide work and an income for thousands of employees and their families nationwide, who might be otherwise employed doing something other than spreading the gospel. Their business model allows them to provide value for their advertisers, their investors, their employees, and their listeners. To provide true value all the way around, while at the same time finding a way to get imperfect advertisers (that would be all of them) to pay for a perfectly good presentation of the gospel message seems to me to be a fine example of Matthew 10:16. Salem has somehow found a clever and honorable way to get the evangelized (that would be all of us, including Salem’s advertisers), to pay for our own evangelization. <BR/><BR/>When I think of the filth that is aired daily on other radio stations, I am reminded of what a blessing it is to have an imperfect Christian station on the air in Portland, versus a perfectly evil one potentially in its place on the radio dial. You won’t find perfection in any Christian organization, for-profit or non-profit. This realization is not an excuse for Christians to be lazy when it comes to living up to God’s perfect standards, it’s an excuse for all of us, as fellow sinners, to extend grace to our fellow, imperfect Christians. Let’s let the Holy Spirit do the hard work of changing people’s hearts and convicting fellow believers of sin. <BR/> <BR/>As for your specific complaints, I’d suggest that you try again with the people you publicly listed as responsible parties. If a one-on-one doesn’t work, follow the Biblical injunction to bring others into the process, and work for a resolution of your concerns in good faith. I don’t work for Salem, so this is just speculation, but I’d guess that what you’re dealing with on The Fish website listing Azumano Travel as an advertiser, is a stressed-out webmaster, who simply hasn’t updated the website to reflect the most current list of advertisers. If The Fish says that Azumano Travel isn’t an advertiser, I’d believe them. No reason to assume the worst, even when presented with their website. <BR/><BR/>How about we turn our invective at things that should really make us angry—the radio and TV stations that spew filth out onto the public airwaves, for one? Let’s not spend our time shooting at our imperfect comrades with “friendly fire”. Facts tend to speak for themselves, and the truth of a situation usually makes itself apparent after time. As with Gamaliel in Acts chapter 5, if the Salem radio broadcasts are not from God, they will fail—with or without the help of a boycott. And, if the Salem stations are doing the Lord’s work, however imperfectly, and coming from whatever motivation we may or may not agree with—if the Lord is behind it, who are we to stand in the way? <BR/><BR/>What if 104.1 The Fish is really a radio station run by Christians, who are in good faith and conscience seeking to honor the Lord and spread the gospel? What if they are more than convenient Christians? What if they are imperfect, but honest-to-goodness true Christians? What do you accomplish by asking others to publicly boycott them?Ty McFarlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873428677000176674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012402701789191316.post-3478154358338917912007-12-30T18:00:00.000-08:002007-12-30T18:00:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ty McFarlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873428677000176674noreply@blogger.com