Not Too Inspiring

KFUO says it is “Inspirational Christian Radio for the World.” Hmm. . .
What does KFUO stand for, I was asked. “Keeping Forward, Upward, Onward” is what it stands for. (Better than station WLJN in a small town of Michigan which stands for “We’re Lifting Jesus’ Name, which is so evangelical.)

It seems as though KFUO’s call letters are imitating C.S. Lewis at the end of The Last Battle. The world of Narnia has been destroyed and the Narnians are in Aslan’s land and they are going “farther up and farther in”—a picture of heaven, as it were.

KFUO is supposed to allow listeners to hear the Word of God. It does with such shows as “The Bible Study” and “Law and Gospel”. It gave a little milk with “The Morning Show” and a lot of meat with “Issues, Etc.” Now we are in a recession and the first thing to go is the meat.

Mr. Strand’s computer-generated SPAM e-mail says:
“I invite you also to listen to “The Afternoon Show” on KFUO-AM, weekdays from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Now and into the future, it will be the constant endeavor of KFUO-AM management to offer the best in Gospel-based programming throughout the day—programming that reaches out to Lutherans, other Christians, and the unchurched, and all within a budget we can hope to sustain.”

Now they are offering us more milk with more of the same morning and afternoon (no offense to the hosts who are just doing their jobs), and frankly, from what I heard, I was not inspired. When I turned it on they were talking about something “geriatric” which did not inspire me to buy a book or check out a website as the “Issues, Etc.” interview with Greg Koukl did. The only thing it inspired me to do was to change back to the rock station.

I did briefly switch back to give it a second chance. They were then interviewing a person who did some missional work. Very laudable, yet there are thousands of missionaries around the world who could have just as easily been interviewed. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not downplaying this man’s work in spreading the Gospel to those who have never heard—I just want to know why we are hearing “nice stories” about “nice people” and not hearing that which encourages us in our faith, builds up the body of Christ, and equips the saints so that we can spread the Gospel.

I, for one am not inspired. I cannot speak for the whole world.