Convictions, not Compromises.

I love my family. I want to know them and understand them. This seemed easy enough-just watch the shows that they watch, and read what they read . . . easy, right? What happens when their worldly entertainment crosses my convictions? When the shows they watch glorify promiscuity and homosexuality and when the books and magazines they read are full of Hollywood vanity and pornography? Do I really need to expose myself to those things in order to relate to them? Is participation in those things that are an offense to God worth being seen as cool and with it? I'd rather be without it . . . without the influences that say promiscuity and homosexuality are fine, and without the exposure to vanity and pornography. I'd rather give my time to pursuits that glorify God and magnify His holiness. I choose to live by convictions and not compromises.