I have been thinking more about the filter thing that came up in the conference last Saturday. Maybe it would be more helpful for us invite people, in my case students, to bring the music and movies, and websites they visit into our community of faith. Here's where I came from: I was the kid that listened only to Christian music, and "oldies" from the 50s and 60s. As if when they sang about having sex in a field its was more innocent than now. "I think we're alone now..." Wouldn't it be more helpful to their journey to come along side them and help them see what we as leader cringe at? I'm thinking of a movie that I went to see with some students, Walking Tall. It's based on a true story. Has action and comedy in it. One of the early scenes is our antagonist Chris Vaughn (played by The Rock) has returned home and is at a high school friend's casino with some other buddies from yesteryear. So to welcome him home some of the guys pitch in and get him a private room to watch a stripper. For a stripper scene it's not bad at all. [Can I say that?] Most of the time that type of scene in a movie has topless women in thong's shakin' their thang in front of a camera, while the main character like an undercover cop talks to an informant at the bar. This scene is stopped short when our antagonist realizes that the stripper is in fact his high school sweetheart, and she runs out of the booth. The meat is this: In the theatre I covered my eyes when I say the stripper, and said out loud "uh, ohhh." So when we went out for milkshakes after, it opened up a great conversation about lust. It helped those boys realize something that day. They knew of a better place to draw the line than before. So I think that the more we enter in to this with people the better. What would it look like if we had people bring music or movies and we played them and talked about how it was good or bad for your soul? What if we spent time in our services or small groups to do things like that? Would we have more of an impact than saying, "don't watch movies or listen to the radio, or this band or than band"? I think we would be doing the Church, and in turn the world a favor by helping people through things like that.