Do all the people you listen to on the street cause you to believe they all know that there is a judgment and they will have to answer for their sins?

There are lots people who don't believe there are consequences in this world for what they do, let alone in the next world. Part of my job at work is teaching young people this lesson. There are many who don't understand there are consequences. That is one reason a lot of people get into trouble, because they think they can get away with terrible crimes. Some do get away with them, as far as society is concerned, but they will have to face God's judgment eventually. Surely you have talked to people who don't believe in a judgment.

If you talk to enough people on the streets of American cities, you can get a pretty good idea of what those people are thinking and how they think. All of that is necessary for knowing what needs to go out to the people over the radio waves and on TV broadcasting.

I would submit that it would be. That is why KTSY does not talk about consequences...but allows the music to talk about grace, mercy, and forgiveness.

That's necessary and good, but as yourself said, what comes after you know you're forgiven? What to do then?

There needs to be more than hearing that you're loved and forgiven. If there isn't more, people will continue on the milk and won't get the solid food that 1 Cor. 3: 2 speaks of. See also Heb. 6: 1-3, which says it's necessary to get beyond the elementary doctrines of Christ and on to maturity. So there needs to be a mixture of types of radio programming-- some for the spiritually immature, for sure, but others for those who already know they're loved and forgiven.

Maybe KTSY already does that, but if they do, why wouldn't they ever have anything on the Sabbath, the Pre-Advent Judgment, etc.?

Yes, of course. But my point is that John 3: 16 has both the grace of God and the consequences of rejection of God's grace.

Typically .... I have not noticed Adventists in media afraid to share our doctrines. Which ones did you have in mind?

The problem, Taylor, is that we emphasis not love, grace, forgiveness, and mercy. We emphasis love and law. We know the beauty of the message, but we don't know how to present it to a world that will accept it whole heartedly....and yet they have hear glimpses of it...some they have rejected due to the plainess of the message, some just don't make sense...

The honest truth is that our distinctive doctrine is pretty boring for those who are not grounded in our doctrines. It has made us pretty uncreative, boring our own selves. Jesus says that if the truth will set us free, then how come we are still grounded by chains of dreariness in presenting this beautify doctrine? I submit that an order in the presenting of the gospel is necessary. It is the radio's prerogative to present forgiveness, mercy, and grace and love to a non-adventist world.

I will not argue that there are a few that don't believe in judgement, but the majority do. A radio station is only a tool to be used by the HS to reach an individual to turn to God. A radio station must appeal to the masses for it to be heard. It is when the masses start to actually listen, and a positive message must be repeated a lot...often...especially when dealing with humans who do not hear....




Won't argue that....





Oooh, so you want KTSY to convict the people of thier sins....Sorry, that's a job of the HS and I prefer to stay out of that area...Too many people have upsurped the HS and really messed things up.



Here is where you and I differ... Radio is only a tool, it plants the seed. It allows the Holy Spirit to work with the human or other humans...We get into all sorts of arguements over what humans try to do and we all know that it never goes over well when humans try to convict one of sin...No, Radio is only to plant seeds....Let the HS convict..then the person will work to make himself approved of God.


Oh, they may drop hints from time to time....after all, thier employees are SDA and carefully selected ones....




Maybe you need to hear what you should do, and maybe you are dealing with that portion of society that is concentrated within a local physcial location which makes a certain type of individual present....but the majority of people already know that there are consequences...A Christian radio station upholds family values, good stewardship, personal integrety all the while promoting that God loves and forgives, and gives mercy and has compassion toward each individual will never be decisive with bible studies that cause one to go one way or another....Let the HS guide the individual and trust that the HS knows what He is doing

Oooh, so you want KTSY to convict the people of thier sins....Sorry, that's a job of the HS and I prefer to stay out of that area...Too many people have upsurped the HS and really messed things up.



Here is where you and I differ... Radio is only a tool, it plants the seed. It allows the Holy Spirit to work with the human or other humans...We get into all sorts of arguements over what humans try to do and we all know that it never goes over well when humans try to convict one of sin...No, Radio is only to plant seeds....Let the HS convict..then the person will work to make himself approved of God.

I actually wrote an article on the subject a while ago. I'll abstain from flooding the post by pasting the entire article... but here are a couple of paragraphs....