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TV worth watching

I received the following email and thought it was worth passing along.  Please do the same.

 

We continue to make incredible progress on our media/cultural initiative.  It is really important to have your engagement and help over the coming weeks as we are at a critical stage.  There has been compelling industry research indicating that:

1.    Kids and families are being negatively impacted by the oversaturation of sex, violence and poor language in prime-time entertainment.

2.    Moms are not satisfied with the viewing options for their families.

3.    Family brand advertising is being negatively impacted in adult oriented programming.  

This research is available upon request.
 
Walmart and P&G are leading an initiative to get more mass family programming into the market that moms and kids love.  It is a very expensive and complicated venture. The first movie airs during primetime on NBC (4/16).  This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to send a definitive message to the advertising industry who will be looking closely at these results.  Various commentators and writers are already publicly saying that there isn’t a mass audience for this kind of family programming.  We respectfully disagree and there are a couple of important things you can do to help this type of programming succeed:

1.    Vote with your remote by tuning in to the movie.

2.    Thank your local Walmart manager for participating in this type of project.

 

Link to the Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG5_bHsU9-k

Most Americans don't know about Easter

According to a recent study by the Barna Group, two out of every three Americans think that of Easter as a religious celebration.  Just what kind of celebration seems open to debate.  Common responses included describing it as a Christian holiday, a celebration of God or Jesus, a celebration of Passover, a holy day, or a special time for church or worship attendance.    However, only, 42% of Americans identified that the meaning of Easter was the resurrection of Jesus or that it signifies Christ death and return to life. One out of every 50 adults (2%) said that they would describe Easter as the most important holiday of their faith.

We often think of America as a Christian nation but fact is that nearly 6 out of every 10 Americans don’t know the meaning of the most important day in all of human history.  It’s long been my contention that one of the greatest barriers to evangelism is the belief that everyone already knows about Jesus.  While I have no doubt that the vast majority of Americans have heard of Jesus, this study shows that for most it is partial knowledge at best.

It is our responsibility as followers of Jesus to change this.  What better time to do that than Easter itself?  Most congregations go all out to make Easter special because most pastors understand that Easter is the most important holiday of our faith.  Indeed, if it were not for Easter and the resurrection of Jesus, there would be no Christian faith.

Who could you invite to join you and to experience the amazing power of God revealed in the resurrection of Jesus this Easter?  Once you’ve thought of them, take the next step and call them up and extend an invitation to them.

General Board of Church & Society once again proves it is out of touch with most United Methodists

By throwing their support behind Obamacare, the General Board of Church & Society once again demonstrated that its leftwing political agenda is out of touch with most United Methodists.  Of the United Methodists who serve in the House of Representatives more voted against the government's takeover of the healthcare system in America than voted for it (26-No, 18-Yes).

Having Nancy Pelosi single out the UM GBCS as an organization who helped pass the bill hurts the United Methodist Church.  Who needs the praise of someone as unpopular as Pelosi?  It is stunts like this that drive people away from the UMC and makes many of us who remain less inclined to want to pay our apportionments since they are used to promote socialism and to enslave our children and grandchildren with an unsustainable national debt.  Anyone who thinks that this bill will actually lower the national debt is naive.  Show me one governmental welfare program that hasn't exceeded its projected costs by millions if not billions of dollars.  It can't be done.  Why would anyone think that this bill will be an exception to a 70 year track record?

Hopefully, one day the General Conference will wise up to the destruction that the GBCS is causing to the UMC and will abolish it once and for all.