MY QUESTION:

How do you react to thanking our Lord through News Media and promoting Him?

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The Deccan Chronicle, an Indian News Paper in its Chennai (India) edition – 3.4.2007 -published a coloured picture of Jesus Christ with the following message: - “Thank you Jesus for the Favours Received” This fulfills the thanking sense. Next a picture of Jesus Christ! Then this glorification! “May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved, adored and glorified throughout the world now and for ever, Amen.’ Now business takes over with an assurance. “Say this prayer nine times a day and your prayer will be answered” Now you will think that this is an unsolicited faith promotion by a Christian! No! He is a Hindu by name Ravichandran. In Kerala, the bastion literate State in India, scores of advertisements like this appear in most newspapers every day. Should genuine Christians laugh or cry on the image of Jesus Christ being presented and the fate of Christianity


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Christians should embrace the image, if the image shows Jesus in a positive light.


1. I'm not so sure about the whole "say this prayer nine times a day" thing. That's getting ritualistic, which is something that the Bible warns against

2. I'm not a Christian, but I think there is a universal answer to this question. Thanking the Lord for the gift of life he has given to us should be in a subtle way; the Lord doesn't want us to thank him in a grand way with a lot of showoff, all he wants is a genuine prayer of thanks that comes right through us from the gratitude we feel for the great mercy the Lord has on us.
I am really against the commercialization of the real fine & pure aspects of our life in this way, I just hope people (like the one in ur case) stop being so artificial & mundane and learn to pray with a pure heart of love, hope & faith.
Hoping for the best.

3. The purpose is to draw more and more people's attention towards God, Lord or religion. Every religion does it by advertisement through posters, magazines, news papers, stage show, TV and even feature films.

4. The commonest refrain of all other religionists is that Hindus worship idols and we do not. I have observed that almost every religion has physical symbols that are held sacred or are worshipped. What if an idol is replaced by something else. Hindus worship the cow holding it to be sacred which has sound economic and moral justification others hold some species of animals as sacred and sacrifice them on certain days to god. What I do not understand is what is better to preserve the sacred or to destroy it.


5. Christians should only embrace the truth. I don't see this as being any good at all for Christianity. God is not at our beck and call, and no matter how many times you pray, if you're not in His will, your prayer will not be heard.

6. It depends on person to person and i will compare it to giving sacrifice. Like Hindu devotees sacrifice their tongue or other body part Christians give advertisement. If you ask me personally I will not do this.

7. Advertisement is advertisement with clear motive of self promotion and is to be seen with that angle only as the content of truth is a question mark

8. If his people won't praise him Jesus said, the rocks and stones will cry out! I think it's great.

8.This is the promotion of Christianity as a religion, and not as a personal relationship with God. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that if you pray a stock prayer nine times that your prayer will be answered. THAT'S religion!
9. All things work for the glory of God, according to the Bible. I don't have a problem with printing the prayer and a picture of Jesus. Anything that serves to remind us to thank Him for all things is good. Better than the BS rap songs, MTV etc. that glorify evil. My question is what is the difference in saying this prayer 9 times and a Catholic repeating the Hail Mary or Our Father multiple times? This is nothing to fear and it has nothing to do with business. It is a good message.