Rocky Balboa Regenerated?

[spiritman]

I'm not disagreeing with you that it is a problem.

however, do youbelieve Jesus would rather poitn fingers at them or pray for them - for conviction, repentance, strength, the ability to stand agains the pressures, the means to truly make a change and a difference, etc.?

So, Lets say for example, a stripper working in a strip joint, gets saved. Should she remain at her current profession, for the sake of witnessing to others?. After all this is considered the enteraiment industry as well.

[nebula]

You're right.

Tie her up to a stake and light the flame.

[spiritman]

I'm not disagreeing with you that it is a problem.

however, do youbelieve Jesus would rather poitn fingers at them or pray for them - for conviction, repentance, strength, the ability to stand agains the pressures, the means to truly make a change and a difference, etc.?

So, Lets say for example, a stripper working in a strip joint, gets saved. Should she remain at her current profession, for the sake of witnessing to others?. After all this is considered the enteraiment industry as well.

I agree with everything you have said, spiritman. When a person's life is transformed by the renewing power of Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit, he/she does not live in their old ways. Their commitment is to serve the Lord Jesus. Many celebrities, politicians, and well known televangelists, and pastors who claim they were called of God, claim to a Christian, but by their fruits you shall know them. Unless they are discipled in sound doctrine from a sound bible believing church, and reading the scriptures daily and living the scriptures and applying them to their lives, nothings really changed. A Christian's life is one of sacrifice, spent serving the Lord.

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Amen Tmr I do hope and pray that Stollone is sincere in his walk with Christ. only time will tell..

[nebula]

So, does that give you liscence to not pray for them?

[Footsteps]

Hopefully some day, toward the end of Stallone's life, he can shout out to heaven as Rocky did to love interest Adrian....

"YO, JESUS!!!! I DID IT!!!!!!"

[Marnie]

I'm not really condeming anyone. The words I speak are a fact, I have bought many Christian videos and several popular secular stars have been cast in them, and they are shouting the fact that they are now Christians, then a few months later, I turn around and happen upon a video showing this same star, and they are in one of the most rauchest videos I've ever seen.

The truth of the fact is, That If I as a Christian found myself in a profession, that was turning people from Christ, I would find a new job. When they do this it ruins there witness.

Not to belabor this point, but a lot of times "Christian" videos are direct-to-disc and are produced, edited and released very quickly. Hollywood productions sometimes take a couple of years to go from the production end of the process to the actually exhibition of the finished product. A character actor, Gregg Henry, has confessed Christ, and I saw him interviewed on some program talking about his newfound faith in Christ. He mentioned that he had two or three manistream movies yet to be released that he had made "last year" before he knew the Lord. That night I rented a DVD with him in it, play the mayor of a small town, who cussed profanities like I hadn't heard before! My guess is that was one of the movies, even though it was a brand new release.

[spiritman]

I'm not really condeming anyone. The words I speak are a fact, I have bought many Christian videos and several popular secular stars have been cast in them, and they are shouting the fact that they are now Christians, then a few months later, I turn around and happen upon a video showing this same star, and they are in one of the most rauchest videos I've ever seen.

The truth of the fact is, That If I as a Christian found myself in a profession, that was turning people from Christ, I would find a new job. When they do this it ruins there witness.

Not to belabor this point, but a lot of times "Christian" videos are direct-to-disc and are produced, edited and released very quickly. Hollywood productions sometimes take a couple of years to go from the production end of the process to the actually exhibition of the finished product. A character actor, Gregg Henry, has confessed Christ, and I saw him interviewed on some program talking about his newfound faith in Christ. He mentioned that he had two or three manistream movies yet to be released that he had made "last year" before he knew the Lord. That night I rented a DVD with him in it, play the mayor of a small town, who cussed profanities like I hadn't heard before! My guess is that was one of the movies, even though it was a brand new release.

Marnie, very good point.

Thank you...

[Marnie]

Oh man, my apologies for all the typos in my post! I'm really not a moron...and I can spell...but sometimes my fingers don't work so well at 3 am!

[Akabu]

Oh man, my apologies for all the typos in my post! I'm really not a moron...and I can spell...but sometimes my fingers don't work so well at 3 am!

I am doing good if I am operating at all at 3pm!!

But that is an excellant point, and one that most people have never considered. It is also possible, and has been done, that a film be held for release for a year or 2 after completion because of stiff compitition at the box office.

[GeneV]

I can imagine what Christians go through in Hollywood is probably like peer pressure on steroids.

We need to pray for our brothers and sisters in Hollywood rather than condemn them. The persecution and pressures they are under are enormous. (Just look at what Mel Gibson went through with making "The Passion".) It's easy for us to say what they should and should not do, but until you have "walked a mile in their shoes" you can't truly say what you would do in their circumstances.

So right Nebula