THE POWER OF TELEVISION
In promoting an upcoming mid-week visit of an important speaker I presented her credentials and stressed the timeliness of her subject. Knowing that television was becoming a formidable barrier to a good attendance at Wednesday night gatherings I was tempted to list in the church bulletin the television programs that one could stay home and see if one chose not to come out that night. I lost heart at deadline time and chickened out. But I still like the “choose ye this day?” “this or that” challenge. We are the product of our choices, even our television choices. In this vein, a reader (name unfortunately misplaced) submitted a checklist of propositions by which one might determine whether she is watching too much television. The Reverend Harold Bales, pastor of Charlotte’s First United Methodist Church devised the test. Here is the nub of the matter. You know that you are watching too much TV if: A. You can name all the…
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