If I'm Going To Be

There Is Nothing More Ugly Than An Orthodoxy Without Understanding Or Compassion.

I Am Afraid That As Evangelicals, We Think That A Work Of Art Only Has Value If We Reduce It To A Tract.

We Have The Right To Rid Our Houses Of Ants; But What We Have No Right To Do Is To Forget To Honor The Ant As God Made It, Out In The Place Where God Made The Ant To Be. When We Meet The Ant On The Sidewalk, We Step Over Him. He Is A Creature, Like Ourselves; Not Made In The Image Of God, It Is True, But Equal With Man As Far As Creation Is Concerned. The Ant And The Man Are Both Creatures.

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.

Technologically, Modern Man Does Everything He Can Do-he Functions On This Single Boundary Principle. Modern Man, Seeing Himself As Autonomous, With No Personal-infinite God Who Has Spoken, Has No Adequate Universal To Supply An Adequate Second Boundary Condition; And Man Being Fallen Is Not Only Finite, But Sinful. Thus Man's Pragmatically Made Choices Have No Reference Point Beyond Human Egotism. It Is Dog Eat Dog, Man Eat Man, Man Eat Nature.