When I saw this website and video about AMTC (Actors, Models and Talent for Christ), it almost brought tears to my eyes… So much deception.
They are farming for young Christian talent and selling them to the entertainment industry. This needs to be nipped in the bud the devil is trying to steal an entire generation. This is spiritual prostitution.
Points of departure from truth:
1. The Holy Spirit is not in the business of selling talent to the entertainment industry.
Jesus was clear in His preaching against the leaven of the Pharisees “hypocrisy.” A hypocrite is basically an actor in real life. So why would Jesus call someone to be a hypocrite AND work for the entertainment industry?
Paul was clear that oratory talent, rhetorical skills, and “the persuasive words of men’s wisdom” (which were common in Greek religion) were not the tools that he used to preach the gospel (1 Corinthians 2:1-4).
2. All successful models of discipleship and evangelism in using talent for God are in the Church. The Church is called to evangelize the world. How is this complicated?
– International House Of Prayer – church, house of prayer, and music ministry/label, etc
– Sherwood Baptist Church – church that also produces top quality Christian movies
– Living Waters – makes Great Media defending the faith
– Ex Ministries – makes great media defending the faith.
– Insert your church’s effort here.
3. Whenever the main thing you learn is how to “market yourself” – you can be assured that’s in not centered in Christ.
There is no successful evangelism or missionary work that is not from the church, helping the church or planting churches.
For every successful Godly covenant family in the entertainment industry (if any exist) there are probably 49 broken ones. Is this the rate of return God wants for His Word and His Sons Blood in our generation?
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
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