What Else Is On

While I don’t spend a lot of time with the TV, my favorite TV watching experience is “to see what else is on.” My wife says I keep the remote hot during my brief encounters with what’s on TV.

Didn’t someone say a long time ago that TV was a “vast wasteland?” Obviously you can watch the news on dozens of channels, and that must have some value. You can watch our Government at work, but that has almost no value. You can find all kinds of “Christian” programming, which is more scary than informative. I am astounded that you can watch people competing to lose weight, bachelors looking for wives, people losing huge sums of money they have earned by answering questions or picking briefcases because they are greedy for just a little more. And then, of course, you can watch people losing their money at the World Championship of Poker, or some such thing. Did I mention golf, racing, soccer, tennis, football, basketball, hockey, ultimate fighting, and maybe the greatest of all sports – Gladiators! (Oh my, I repeat, Oh my!)

TV programming is successful in part because people:
Have abandoned time with the family (no, watching TV together is not family time);
Don’t have gardens;
Know all they want to know about the Bible;
And their conversational skills are a mess.

You can add your reasons to my short list (I have a longer one).

If God’s people spent as much time with Him, in His Word, with His folks, ministering grace to others around them, as they do watching TV, this would be a different world.

And that would be a GOOD thing.