Christianity Group — For Those Who Seek Jesus

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Funny you mention guilt, and I shouldn’t even wade into this thread:

In junior high I was very active in my church. I went every Sunday and to youth group on Wednesday nights. I had also learned a passion for reading, particularly in the fantasy genre. I was reading 4-500 page books and enjoying the world building, the dialogue, the scope.

So there’s this sermon one day and the pastor is saying, if it isn’t exalting god, you shouldn’t be taking it in. That means movies, tv, books, etc. So I asked him about it after the sermon. I really enjoyed the books I was reading (they were very tame and taught great lessons about how to be a good person) and I asked him if reading them was sinful. He told me it was and that I should read authors that exalted Christ…like CS Lewis.

So I went and read The Chronicles of Narnia and made it about 4 books in and put them down and I never looked back. I decided then that if to be without sin was to have to read terribly boring books for the rest of my life then…I’m out. Haha. Yeah, that was definitely a turning point.


Moral of my story: if you know your own heart and you know your love for Christ is strong, don’t let someone else tell you what you can’t read, watch, play, etc. it’s your life and your relationship with him. By the way, that pastor was kicked out of the church a few years later after cheating on his wife with a fellow member of the church.