You said — “The church we used to attend was into drama. Every Valentine’s Day we had a romantic evening with music and candle light dinner for couples. It was in the fellowship hall, but we did all secular music, comedy sketches from Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live and famous sitcoms. Were we in sin too?”
Well, no...
Not everything a person does, day-in and day-out is going to be a Bible study or a sermon or a teaching or a praise service or whatever, like that. Now, of course, our conduct and attitudes (towards what we do) should be governed by what the Bible tells us. This doesn’t mean that every word we speak to one another is going to be a Bible verse or a Biblical principle of some kind.
There are normal and okay things in society. Overall, though, our culture and society is rapidly sliding down that slippery slope to where it will be, when Jesus said “as in the days of Noah”... But, even as everything isn’t a Bible verse or teaching, likewise in our own culture, “everything” isn’t anti-God, either.
So, a Valentine’s evening dinner at church with those other things (which I’m sure was tastefully done) is part of normal life. We are to live as real and normal people, while we follow the teachings of the Bible.
My two cents there...
Regards,
Star Traveler
P.S. — Do you have to go to a Christian restaurant, or be in sin? Or perhaps if you buy from a store whose owner is not a Christian, are you in sin, helping promote evil? And, if anyone is in sin — it would definitely be the parents who send their kids to public schools, right (since they are so anti-God and teach *specifically* against anything to do with God). Well, anyway..., it can get pretty far out that way, if one goes down that track.
[... We are to live as real and normal people,
while we follow the teachings of the Bible...]
Yes. That’s pretty much the way I feel about it,
otherwise you become legalistic - behaving more
like Muslims who are paranoid about being defiled.
Trust me. I’m defiled, but saved by grace.