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Good debate offered on Christian music

Re: Date Line on Christian Radio

> radioelizabeth wrote:
>
> An ad for an online dating service is not the same as radio
> station setting up the previously suggested date line.
>

Well, I think it may still be a grey area, but thats ok. Date lines seem to target the same audence as online dating services, in fact, some of the date lines such as the old matchmaker, run online services now a days. I guess their allowed to do what they desire.

I dont see having co-ed small groups at church totally a bad thing either, I think they have their place, just as the mens groups, womens groups, singles groups, married groups all have their target.

Just my two cents though.

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Lenks
Program Director/Music Director
X Music Online
The X
Today's Best Music
http://www.xmusiconline.com/</P>
 
Re: WHAT?!/ Date Line on Christian Radio

> Men are called to make an effort.

There is nothing wrong with women making an effort, too. Calling a man for a date does NOT automatically imply having sex. But I can tell you are very traditionally oriented. And feel like you want to call people to holiness. But holiness isn't always equated with singleness or same gender groups. "Singleness equated with holiness" is Catholic heresy. And they pay the price for "forbidding to marry" with a plague of homosexuality in their leadership. God's word really IS true and violate even smallest portion of it at your own peril. Most people, the overwhelming majority, are called to marriage. A church equipping its singles with godly activites as opposed to bars is a good thing. Trying to convince a lonely single that they are called to singleness doesn't work. It didn't with me, it only saddened and depressed me more. Since I had a desire for marriage, and wanted not to sin, it was better that I married.

A Christian radio station recognizing the need of the vast majority of its single listeners to be married would fill a ministry need. And would be a good thing.
 
Re: Date Line on Christian Radio

More than likely a third party company is actually administering the date line for the station anyway..the station just gets to "brand" it.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: x music online...

> > i see switch on the x playlist. you do know what that song
>
> > is about ..dont you..
> >
>
> Yeah and my Web Station is NOT Christian ... It's Mainstream
> CHR (with some Christian Content) and to tell you the truth,
> I hate a lot of what I program, but I got a target audience
> and I must deal with it.
>
i see :)..then i have no problems with it ..at least you are programming some christian on it. if it was the other way around i would have a problem. <P ID="signature">______________
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Date Line on Christian Radio

Look Bruce,

We obviously COMPLETELY disagree on the role men and women have in the areas of pursuit. And we also disagree about the "call" to singleness. True, FEW are called to a LIFETIME of singleness...but if it is the season one is in, it's their call for THAT TIME. And I'm sure we disagree about the idea that marriage is the fix for a single's loneliness. Let's let that discussion die here. I don't see either of us altering the others perspective at all.

I don't see a problem with a station tapping in to the wants and needs of their target listener. And a vast majority of them are single and wanting to be married. There are plenty of ways a station can reach out to this audience without a service as this, that really doesn't have anything to do with their programming. Besides, if this is an option...then why not a daycare service for the huge portion of listeners that need and want that.

You see...a station can opt to do plenty of things that would seem "valuable" to their listeners. But there is a responsibility to also stay on target and focus.

Elizabeth

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RADIOELIZABETH
Pleasant, Passionate, Persuasive
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Re: x music online...

> i see :)..then i have no problems with it ..at least you
> are programming some christian on it. if it was the other
> way around i would have a problem.
>

I dont try to be a Christian station, I do program the music in there with the mainstream because I feel that it does give a positive message and that non beleivers could be blessed by the positive message and the Christian lyrics in some of the stuff played and apperently consdiering I have an avg of just under 4000 listener hours this month, the people are not that annonyed that their geting told by God next to the latest "junk" that mainstream artists are putting out.

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Lenks
Program Director/Music Director
X Music Online
The X
Today's Best Music
http://www.xmusiconline.com/</P>
 
Re: WHAT?!/ Date Line on Christian Radio

>
> Plenty of reasons. The goal isn't to be married. It's to be
> Holy. With or without a mate. Energy and expense invested in
> a "date line" by a local Christian station has one thousand
> other better uses.
>
> I'm not knocking marriage...or a man seeking out a
> wife...but when Christian radio starts to broaden their
> reach to become a dating service, I'd say some focus has
> seriously been blurred.
>
> Christian radio has enough hurdles it's got to overcome to
> open that can of worms as well...
>
> e
>


Yes and amen!!!!<P ID="signature">______________
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