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I joined in the discussion.
Well, actually, I more or less monitored it by reading what people were writing back and forth as they discussed the value of entertainment on Facebook. It really fell into three categories:
One group thought entertainment was supreme, and that a message of inspiration could be added as long as it didn’t push an agenda or wasn’t too obvious.
Yet another contingency insisted that all entertainment had value because it was escapism from the rigors of adult life and the difficulties of our society.
Then there were those who believed that entertainment was in the eye or ear of the receiver and therefore was difficult to define because it was so individualized.
To some degree, at various stages of my life, I have held fast to each one of these ideas. But honestly, none of the three define entertainment.
Entertainment is the blending of entering and attaining.
One of the weaknesses in our society is that we’re losing “sweet” fellowship for “tweet” fellowship. We no longer press human flesh by arriving at a location where we sit with other human beings and enter into an experience that lets everyone know that “we showed up.”
Then I believe that it’s the responsibility of the artist, the teacher, the preacher or any communicator–to find a way to use the common sense and good cheer of life to help us all attain greater understanding of one another.
Entertainment and inspiration are not at odds with each other nor mutually exclusive. They are fraternal twins.
For after all, you will never inspire people if you are not prepared to entertain their fancy, and you never truly entertain folks if they leave uninspired, merely comparing your offering to others they’ve sampled.
- I will enter.
- I will attain.
- I will show.
- And I will grow.
And when you mingle these two together, you get the essence of God, who was both a show-off in the way He exploded the universe, and a practical philosopher in the procedure of how it operates.
Tonight I head to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to perform after a banquet. They want it to be entertaining. This might cause some people to pause, wondering if they had the material and the inclination to solely entertain.
I don’t worry about such things. Because I believe if you truly entertain, you inspire. And no inspiration ever happens without the audience being entertained.
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