Last week I posted an update on Twitter and facebook that read “Confession: at the end of the day I am often more interested in entertainment than in spiritual development. A sad fact that must change.”

A good friend pointed out that this is the problem with American Christianity and after mulling it over for a little while, I’m inclined to agree. Which brings me to several questions and observations.

• How have we taken our relationship with our Creator so lightly that we have the audacity to choose to watch TV when we haven’t even said hello to Him all day?
• Why do we feel entitled to rest at the end of the day by spending hours being totally unproductive? Does productivity during the day mean that the evening must be unproductive? That is ridiculous, no one “deserves” anything, we are not entitled.
• Why do I have such an insatiable desire to be entertained all the time, to the point that I actually avoid silence? You might do this too. When is the last time you rode in the car without the radio on purpose?
• Is my desire for constant entertainment a reflection of how truly self centered I am at heart? Or is it a shield that keeps me from thinking too deeply and having to deal with some of the sin issues in my life?
• America’s addiction to entertainment is clearly unhealthy and will continue to lead us down a path that is very far from God.
• Christians should not forsake “secular” entertainment just too substitute it with “Christian” entertainment. The problem is not the message of the entertainment, but the medium itself and what it does to our thinking.
• Churches that focus their meetings on entertaining their people are doing their people a great disservice. Following Jesus has nothing to do with being entertained and everything to do with forsaking distractions to follow Him.

Thoughts?