Just Because Something Is Beautifully Written Does

This Is Not An Age In Which To Be A Soft Christian.

In The Flesh Rather Than The Work Of The Spirit, It Is Easy To Say We Are Showing Holiness And It Only Be Egotistic Pride And Hardness.

The Command Is To Love Him, Not Just To Think About Him, Or Do Things For Him. We Are Not To Stop With A Proper Legal Relationship - For Example, To Think Of A Man As Legally Lost, Which He Is, In The Sight Of A Holy God - Without Thinking Of Him As A Person. Saying This, We Can Suddenly See That Much Evangelism Is Not Only Sub-christian, But Subhuman - Legalistic And Impersonal.

We Are Not Being True To The Artist As A Man If We Consider His Art Work Junk Simply Because We Differ With His Outlook On Life. Christian Schools, Christian Parents, And Christian Pastors Often Have Turned Off Young People At Just This Point. Because The Schools, The Pastors, And The Parents Did Not Make A Distinction Between Technical Excellence And Content, The Whole Of Much Great Art Has Been Rejected With Scorn And Ridicule. Instead, If The Artist's Technical Excellence Is High, He Is To Be Praised For This, Even If We Differ With His World View. Man Must Be Treated Fairly As Man.

As Christians, We Must See That Just Because An Artist-even A Great Artist-portrays A Worldview In Writing Or On Canvas, It Does Not Mean That We Should Automatically Accept That Worldview. Good Art Heightens The Impact Of That Worldview, But It Does Not Make It True.