Bible Question:
The movie WAR ROOM is an excellent tool for encouraging personal prayer. I personally have taken steps to reach out to family and friends to make a prayer room. I wonder where do you go to be in a special place to regularly pray? If so would you mind sharing it. I do not consider sharing a point of braging, but so we each might think of better ways to pray. Have you found a special book besides the Bible that encourages prayer? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Justme... The movie tended to look at prayer as a means to an end. A method of insuring that God would respond to you. An aspect that I deem is nothing other than superstitious. I remember when the movie by Mel Gibson came out called "The Passion of Christ." Everyone said, this will lead people to Christ! I have not met a single new believer from that movie that simply encouraged Romanists errant perspectives of Christ's crucifixion. It is also like the movies about a near death encounter or the Left Behind series. These were supposed to be mechanisms that draw people to faith in Christ. Again, no fruit, just superstition. We shouldn't be surprised because the Word does not say that plays, or novels, or other things are the means of Grace. It only says that the Word is the Means of Grace (Romans 10:17). Getting excited about this kind of thing is like running to and fro when people say "Here is the Christ" or "There He is!" We can clearly see them as faulty by the fruit that they fail to bring forth. In Him, Doc |