The decision has been deliberate and voluntary, choosing not to spend money for that which brings more harm than benefit. And as the years come and go, many of us are convinced that television programming is not improving.
TV is the greatest communications medium ever designed by man.
Only rarely, in our opinion, does TV contribute anything useful to one's life. The attitude of Christians toward TV has shifted from one of reluctance to purchase a set in the 1950s, to one of general acceptance of its place in the homes in the 1980s. Read the article which follows and notice what happened to one family that decided to give up television viewing. The Mennonite editor, Sanford Shetler, has issued an appropriate indictment against those Brethren who seem to be more interested in big-name sports events than in sharing the simple Gospel of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. The rest of us sat staring at the blank picture tube, hoping anxiously that somehow she'd just as suddenly recover.