Christian Entertainment

In the age of technology, Christianity have gone into itchy ears mode. Paul described these people as having "itching ears" (2 Timothy 4:3). During Paul's days, Christians did not like sound doctrine, but they were Christians. They called themselves Christians, but their ears were itchy. Christians love entertainment more than actually worshipping God and they often will not endure sound doctrine. Itching ears means people want something else beside the sound docrine and holiness worship. Paul would rebuke today's Christians as He did in his day. Instead of the Spirit of God in the center or our hearts, we now have glamor, as artificial as pleasant to our eyes and ears. Showbusiness is often refer to as fiction and who can tell the difference today? Are we in Faith and Fiction? We are in the superficial age that have been incorporated into the structure of popular Christianity rather than true Christianity. The methods used by various so called "spiritual leaders" to promote Christianity, by means of which they gain some kind of success but which are themselves basically deceiving. In my research, many of these "TV Preachers" have their own ethic problems and lack of financial accountibility. Many of them even refused to reveal their financial records for Christian Auditors as non-Christians do with their non-profit organizations. If non-profit organizations want the public trust so that they can receive donations, they open their financial books. If they don't, there's no donation. Christian leaders should have HIGHER standards than non-Christians and MANY TV preachers do not have that kind of standards. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. — 2 Timothy 4:3 Let's look at it from a different perspective. Are TV Preachers/Mega Churches who includes entertainment practice IDOLATRY? Is entertainment another form of idolatry to make our Christianity enough to endure without feeling bored? Are we bored because we are having trouble setting our hearts focus on GOD alone? The tendency toward excessive stimulation is seen everywhere. Entertainment that once satisfied people now excites nothing more enjoyable than boredom. Are Christians are under the control of "the carnal mind" away from God-Centered to Self-Centered Worshipping? The Holy Spirit is OUR source of entertainment, not the other way around. Are we Spirit-filled or are we entertainment-filled? The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. Wrong ideas about how we glorify God are only the fountain from which the polluted waters of idolatry flow; ideas/images are themselves idolatrous. The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true. We have glorified God with our own understanding and in our own images, but without a bright and conscious confirmation of God's presence through the Holy Spirit because a Christian's worship can be very deadly and dull in the eyes of God when He looks in our hearts. God grows weary of our worship when our hearts and minds are not in tune with Him! "God is trying to interest us in a glorious tomorrow and we are settling for an inglorious today. We are bogged down in local interests and have lost sight of eternal purposes." A.W. Tozer