Should Christians Watch The Bachelor? | Questions You're Asking | Psalm 101.3

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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What makes The Bachelor a questionable TV show? Does that say something about it? Or about us? Hear what https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Pastor Keith Simon) thinks of the show as he continues our series on answering https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/questions-youre-asking/ (Questions You're Asking). Interested in more content like this? Check out https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-beat-digital-distraction/ (How to Beat Digital Distraction) from our last series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/how-to-follow-jesus/ (Learning to Follow Jesus). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.6	I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're
0:14.9	answering questions that you're asking. A lot of these are coming from our
0:18.4	Facebook page so if you follow 10 minute Bible talks on Facebook you can ask questions that you want us to answer or
0:25.3	vote on questions that other people are asking. We've got a spicy question today.
0:31.7	Should Christians watch The Bachelor?
0:35.3	Thanks for whoever sent this in on the 10 minute Bible Talk Facebook page.
0:38.9	Feel free to go there and throw out questions of your own. Patrick doles out the questions and I'm sure he gave me this one because he didn't want to touch it.
0:48.0	Let's dive in and just think about it biblically giving each of us the freedom to come up with our own answers but hopefully
0:55.5	as we hold our opinions up to the scripture we will have answers that are not shaped by our
1:01.8	intuition or the culture but answers to this
1:04.7	question and really all questions that we would ask that are shaped and formed by
1:08.8	the Bible. One thing we know for sure is the Bachelor is incredibly popular.
1:13.5	Millions of people tune in to watch either it or one of its many spin-offs.
1:19.2	So The Bachelor, along with Survivor, American Idol,
1:22.0	these are the most successful reality TV shows of our day.
1:27.0	Now most of the time when people watch shows, they don't ask me or probably they're a pastor if it's okay for them to watch a particular show, but a lot of
1:37.2	Christians do ask that question about this show, about the Bachelor.
1:41.8	And I wonder if that reveals that Christian's consciences bother them about this show in a way
1:48.0	that other shows don't bother them.
1:51.0	I know this.
1:51.7	There are lots of people with strong opinions about the bachelor.
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