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1 | "The Passion of the Christ" | John 19:30 | EdB | 117411 | ||
Hank My imagination of what took place from the Biblical account far overwhelms the visual graphics this movie provided. I think for many Christians that was emotionally stimulated by this movie they have failed to mediate on the scripture as fully as they need to. That may seem to a harsh statement on the surface but understand what I'm saying we have a tendency to be very casual about our Christianity and remain emotionally detached. In fact in many instances emotional attachment is discouraged. Each time we take communion our emotions should be shook to the very core over the events this act represents. Hearts should be softened, minds reflective and spirits repentant that there isn't a dry eye in the church. Yet most often the emotion which is displayed is complacency and almost boredom. EdB |
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2 | "The Passion of the Christ" | John 19:30 | Hank | 117412 | ||
Ed, I agree. No film can ever take the place of God's written word, or sufficiently fix in our minds the way Scripture can the message of the gospel of Christ. One cannot expect to find in a two-hour film anything to approach the richness of the Bible. In our hurry-up plasticine society of the microwave oven and the lightning-speed internet, we are not unlike the little blue-haired woman sitting on a church pew conversing with her friend before the beginning of the worship service. Her friend asked the little blue-haired woman whether she had read the Bible all the way through. She said no, she hadn't but had always meant to. "But now I'm getting old and my eyes are not what they used to be," she said, "so I guess I'll just wait and see the movie." This was in the days immediately before Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood extravaganza "The Bible" was scheduled to be released. --Hank | ||||||
3 | "The Passion of the Christ" | John 19:30 | EdB | 117413 | ||
Hank And that is why I kind of get upset when I see the Chrisian community get excited about Hollywood doing something they should have been doing all along. We are called to be his witnesses yet we not only allow Hollywood to do that for us overlooking the "license" taken we get excited and rush into it. If that same message was preached from the pulpits of our churches by 'cruficied' men the spiritual imagerty would so electify Christiandom that this world would be set upon. Instead we content ourselves with Hollywood's lead and hope lives were changed. It shouldn't be the church rushing to Hollywood it should be Hollywood rushing to the church. If Christians would read and mediate on what God through Christ did for them and get ahold of it totally, mentally, spiritually and emotionally that flicker of fire within them would become a blazing flame which would light the darkness of this world. EdB |
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4 | "The Passion of the Christ" | John 19:30 | Hank | 117414 | ||
Ed, it is a shame that the message of the Cross has to come from a Hollywood film instead of from the church pulpit. What a commentary it is when the faithful view this movie and say, "Wow, I never knew Jesus suffered so much!. I never heard anything like that in church." They never hear much about judgment, sin, hell, repentance, and atonement either. But they hear a great deal about health (God owes us this), prosperity (and this), inclusiveness (one religion is as good as another), right to choose (right to murder unborn children), acceptable alternate lifestyles (there's nothing wrong with perversion and immorality), and whatever other fads may be considered chic by nominal Christians who must always and by all means keep themselves politcally correct. --Hank | ||||||
5 | "The Passion of the Christ" | John 19:30 | EdB | 117415 | ||
Hank My point exactly. This movie shouldn't have caused so much as a ripple in the world had the church been doing what it was charged with. EdB |
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