I love Jesus, but my heart is drawn to spend too much time with entertainment.

How do I break the whole entertainment has on my heart?

That was a question sent in to Pastor John and Desiring God a few years back, and it was

a question Pastor John addressed at the time.

Here's what he said.

That's a very good question.

I think it's especially relevant because we live, I think, more now than ever in a day

when entertaining kinds of things are immediately accessible.

I was thinking the other day of the difference between our temptations, and say 300 years

ago, 250 years ago, the day of Jonathan Edwards.

It would just write about the folly of young people getting together to do frivolous conversation

or other worse things, bundling it was called, getting in bed with each other and keep

your clothes on, that sort of thing.

Just spice up life a little bit.

Life gets boring in New England 250 years ago.

Today we carry in our pockets, radio, television, internet, and games, and anything that would

be titillating.

It's fun.

And fun is a word in the church today that's just rampant.

It's an adjective, it's a noun, it's a verb, because we do ministry in order to fit this

mentality.

So I'm deeply concerned about that.

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