If we're honest with ourselves most would fall into the camp of "mindless media consumer". Or at least we can remember a time or two when we got to the end of a movie and thought "why did I watch that"? Or finally see the lyrics to a song and realize that it says some surprising things. That's what can happen when you "listen to the music not the words", which I don't believe is entirely possible, but we'll give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. Today we are constantly flooded with all sorts of media. There are sounds and images that come at us everywhere we turn, some we can't filter but there is plenty that we do have some choice about. So the first step in combating "mindless media consumption" is THINKING about what we watch and listen to. We need to think about the message it's giving. What is being promoted and what values are being held up.
Once we're thinking more critically about what we're consuming then we need to hold it up against what we know is unchanging truth, the Bible, the word of God. Then we can see where it lines up, where it get's of track, or where it intentionally opposes the truth. Since Ephesians 5:11 tells us to take no part in the works of darkness we need to decide at what point are we doing that by what we watch and listen to. As Christians we've been called out of darkness and into the marvelous light of Christ, so as scripture exhorts us to let's walk in the light rather than the darkness we've been set free from.
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