Good for her! Homosexuality, Satanism and sexually explicit performance. The Grammys is no place for a Christian.
pnewton, I usually agree with you, but not this time.
The Grammys are definitely a place where Christians should be.
Christians should PERMEATE the Grammys, every aspect of the Grammys, from backstage to front and center.
Christians should be involed with every genre of music, and be the salt and light that the people in the industry desperately need.
We should have the goal of being CHRIST in the industry to everyone we come into contact with. Our goal should be that someday, everyone at the Grammys will be a faithful Christian, producing and performing music that glorifies God even if it isn’t overtly Christian.
The alternative for Christians is the Dove Awards, where we hide ourselves away from the world in our safe little Christian fortress. That’s OK for one night. It’s nice to get away and pretend that we are already in heaven.
But the rest of the year, we need to be IN the world, and not of the world. I think the singer’s action at the Grammys probably made a lot of other musicians think, and that’s good. If the singer is a good musician, other musicians will respect her action, and think about their own relationship to God.
IF Christians were more involved with the Grammys, especially in the production aspect of the show, it’s possible that the Christian would have had a “tempering influence” and been able to convince the producers to tone down or even totally change Ms. Perry’s number. It happens all the time in the entertainment industry. Christians are spread out all over this industry, and I firmly believe, based on the experiences that our daughter has had (she’s a stage manager), that they “hold back” a lot of evil by their quiet and loving influence in the planning meetings. Without Christians, entertainment would be utterly and completely despicable with no redeeming value.