I think the main purpose of chapter 9 is that we have to be careful how we achieve our goals. Turner tells the story of his friend Dave who was once a very strong Christian, but as he began to be successful in his work, he started putting God aside, and putting work first. Turner writes that Dave would frequently choose work over his family. Then at Dave's funeral, two of his acquaintances in music stated that they did not even know he was religious. Now for me, this really scares me. Sometimes I think that I do not express my faith as much as I should, and so this story about Dave really convicted me. It made me wonder if I am doing all that I have been called to do. I do not want people to go to my funeral at a church, and not even know that I loved Jesus my whole life. I want people to be able to look at my life, look at what I do, who I do it for, and recognize that I am a strong believer in Christ and that my entire life is focused on Him. Turner wants his readers to understand that while our dreams can be extremely big (and most times as little kids, we are encouraged to have big dreams), we have to be careful about the measures that we will go to achieve those dreams. We need to set some strict boundaries when we are deciding how far we will go to achieve a goal. We have to make sure that we do not throw away the person that we are, just to reach a goal. If we want to achieve our dreams, we have to be sure that God is included in those goals.
Something that really impacts me in chapter 9 is when Turner writes "Wanting to be an artist in the service of God sounds like the purest of motives, but it can be corrupted." I think there are many examples of this in our world today. The first example that comes to my mind is Miley Cyrus. I remember when I was younger, she made a comment and it was in a magazine that I read. She said something about how she was never going to let the fame get to her, and she was never going to turn out like Brittney Spears. But as we look at Miley now, we can see how much
she has changed since she got really famous. I am not saying that the fame is what made her change, but I definitely think that it had something to do with it. I think this quote about wanting to be an artist for God can definitely relate to myself and a lot of others at our school. But I think what I am understanding about this quote is that we have to be careful about the way that we go about doing this. While we are going to be influenced by things of this world, and that is okay, we have to make sure that we do not disregard our values and morals in doing so. We have to stand firm and be strong in our faith. We have to understand the beliefs of the world, but also be strong in our own beliefs.
Something that really impacts me in chapter 9 is when Turner writes "Wanting to be an artist in the service of God sounds like the purest of motives, but it can be corrupted." I think there are many examples of this in our world today. The first example that comes to my mind is Miley Cyrus. I remember when I was younger, she made a comment and it was in a magazine that I read. She said something about how she was never going to let the fame get to her, and she was never going to turn out like Brittney Spears. But as we look at Miley now, we can see how much
she has changed since she got really famous. I am not saying that the fame is what made her change, but I definitely think that it had something to do with it. I think this quote about wanting to be an artist for God can definitely relate to myself and a lot of others at our school. But I think what I am understanding about this quote is that we have to be careful about the way that we go about doing this. While we are going to be influenced by things of this world, and that is okay, we have to make sure that we do not disregard our values and morals in doing so. We have to stand firm and be strong in our faith. We have to understand the beliefs of the world, but also be strong in our own beliefs.
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