Why do Christians always feel so smug? It could come from the fact that we have the only tickets to heaven but why do we have to create sub sections? Heaven isn't a club and the Evangelical "tribe" isn't the V.I.P section.
The foreword to Shultze's book by Clifford G. Christians begins, "I read this book and hear the New York Philharmonic. The aesthetic harmony of a symphony orchestra sounds from its pages."
Really?... Really Clifford? You hear that? It sounds more like you are advertising your own high brow taste in music. But it doesn't stop there.
In chapter 5, Ken Waters writes, "Hundreds of print-based Protestant and Catholic periodicals are regularly published. The most vibrant ones are associated with the evangelical movement in American History. He goes on to list numerous Christian publications with wowing numbers of subscription. But he laments that they cannot find new readers because mainstream bookstores and new-stands do not carry them but instead people have to go to Christain book stores. "vibrant but invisible".
I am finding it hard to stomach this evangelical spin on media. Its leaving a very bad taste in my mouth. It seems to me that what they are truly achieving is creating content, by evangelicals for evangelicals. And that seems like the opposite of what their name implies. I wouldn't find it annoying except that the writers in this book seem convinced they are doing a bang up job at what they do when it seems to me that they are merely creating content and then patting themselves on the back. I wouldn't call that evangelical media but media for evangelicals.
I agree that these publications can "combat sin, edify believers" but "change the course of history"? Not any more. C.S Lewis said it best that what the world needs is less Christians, or tribes of evangelicals, writing Christian books, and more Christians simply writing.
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