Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Amy Grant Message-ID: Date: 11 May 91 02:57:28 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Space Science Labs Lines: 32 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article @vm.cc.purdue.edu:XWUU@PURCCVM writes: >I don't begrudge Amy her music...it is not in my taste...What I object to >is the commercialization of the gospel. An AG concert costs a local area >$30K-$50K!!! Sounds like selling the gospel to me! BTW...Amy's "honorarium" >for an evening's concert is now into the 1,000's of dollars. I am a musician >and a christian - many of us consider our music a ministry. If people CANNOT >pay - we play anyway. > Once again, the legalism that says, 'Christians should not make a lot of money,' pops its head. I believe that money is a very dangerous tool, and can be corrosive; but life is corrosive. If you're going to argue that a Christian musician should not prosper in what they do best, you might as well go to the logical extreme and argue that a christian should avoid physical life and become some kind of gnostic. Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. If God can catapult servants to great heights of fame, he is able to put his Spirit in them to withstand the temptations that this fame and money bring. Be careful not to judge Amy by what might cause YOU to stumble. Perhaps you, by the discernment God has given you, perceive that you would not be able to handle such wealth and popularity; however, that doesn't mean Amy can't handle it. > >Kirk > John Warren ----------- "Into the narrow lanes, I can't stumble or stay put." -- from 'I and I', by Dylan