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To: Star Traveler
I recommend that you seek the face of YHvH
and love your sister in Yah'shuia.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

11 posted on 02/19/2015 10:38:11 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Addicted to Mediocrity
http://www.crossway.org/books/addicted-to-mediocrity-tpb/

In this provocative book, Franky Schaeffer shows how Christians today have sacrificed the artistic prominence they enjoyed for centuries and settled instead for mediocrity. The evidence for this sad state of affairs abounds. We are flooded with “Christian” doodads, trinkets, t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc., that use God’s name as an advertising slogan—”Things Go Better with Jesus”—putting the Creator of the universe on the same level as soda pop! Moreover, Schaeffer writes, “Whenever Christians, and evangelicals in particular, have attempted to ‘reach the world’ through the media—TV, film, publishing and so on—the thinking public gets the firm idea that, like soup in a bad restaurant, Christians’ brains are best left unstirred.”

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Schaeffer shows how Christians who care can begin to reverse the slide toward mediocrity: by demanding excellence in the arts and media, and in all areas of life; by giving our time, talents and money to those things which are worthy of our support and are truly honoring to God; by staying away from the cheap, the shoddy, and the make-a-fast-buck mentality.

Schaeffer offers not only an unflinching critique, but specific and practical direction for becoming “unaddicted,” and for recovering artistic excellence. The punch, humor and satire of the text is effectively enhanced by nineteen original drawings by Chicago artist Kurt Mitchell.

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It applies to writing, and writing with excellence, and not in a disorganized and messy fashion!

It’s a good thing God is not “Addicted to Mediocrity!” ... :-) ...

For those who want to get a copy ...
http://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Mediocrity-20th-Century-Christians/dp/0891072144/


12 posted on 02/19/2015 11:28:28 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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