John Piper: A Public Apology and Why He Doesn't Watch TV or Go To Movies Very Often

John Piper repents of being "useless and unhelpful" in his response to a question that was asked of him at the Advance09 conference. It's great when leaders who are constantly in the spotlight can own up to their sin and name it. This is very refreshing for me to read. Our churches need more of this kind of frank, honest, and real confession. I don't know about you, but I want to be in a community that says, "Hey, I'm a mess and so you are you. Let's go to the cross together."

After he repents of how he said what he did, he addresses the question with he deems to be a much more satisfactory answer about why he doesn't own a TV and rarely goes to movies.

You can read this whole piece here. Here is a snippet:

I think relevance in preaching hangs very little on watching movies, and I think that much exposure to sensuality, banality, and God-absent entertainment does more to deaden our capacities for joy in Jesus than it does to make us spiritually powerful in the lives of the living dead. Sources of spiritual power—which are what we desperately need—are not in the cinema. You will not want your biographer to write: Prick him and he bleeds movies.