Are you responsible for programming a station or Christian media outlet? Let me ask you a pointed question. What are you embracing as truth? There is a struggle common to almost all who are responsible for a Christian media outlet. It often goes like this:

If I’m not able to pay my bills, I can’t stay on the air. And if I am not on the air, I can’t share God’s Truth…the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

That seems to make sense.

So, a decision is made to carry a program that is popular, even though some of its key theology is off base spiritually. The programmer pays their bills on time, and they pay generously to put their program on the station. And that means we can pay our bills, stay on the air, and get the Gospel out.

But what does that say about you or me? First of all, it says we are embracing and endorsing this teaching, this theology, even though we know it to be non-biblical or an over-emphasis of a biblical truth. And the result is that our listeners and viewers are misled in important areas of their spiritual life.

If we do this, it also says something else. It says that we don’t trust God. We don’t trust our Sovereign Lord to provide for His ministry. We are saying that unless we lower our spiritual standards, God’s ministry will fail. In essence, we are actually doing the Lord a favor.

Can I remind us of something? God doesn’t need you or me. He could communicate His Truth any way He wants. However, He chooses to work through us to accomplish His will. And truth is important to the Lord.

God can meet our needs in our ministries as well as in our personal lives. We don’t need to lower our standards to accomplish God’s will. We need to proclaim Truth…sound theology…with the understanding that our God is still sovereign and can help us in all areas, including the financial well-being of our ministries.

The Apostle Paul understood this and taught his believing friends in Philippi that truth.

And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:19 NLT

You can show your faith even by how you program your ministry outlet. Easy? Rarely. Rewarding? Always.

God’s best…