Hanging Banners from Your Church.
The greatest evangelsim tool in 2000 years?
How soon we forget.
A few years ago there was a tremendous amount of hype about the movie The Passion of Christ. Parts of the Church were saying it was the greatest evangelism tool in 2,000 years. Churches were buying pockets of tickest and inviting people to see the movie in hopes of explaining what Jesus went through. Churches hung banners directing people who had questions to visit their churches for the answers.
Not much resulted in the hype, a few weeks after the movie was released the huge supporters became very hush. It seemed like another passing culture fad for the Church.
This past May, I made a post about a movie that I think is one of the most significant and culturally relevant movies in cinematic history: CRASH. I made reverence to it again in December as one of my all-time favorites.
Tonight it won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
This is the movie the Church needs to promote,watch and discuss for it touches the core of what Jesus spoke about in our human nature.
I haven't seen CRASH banners hanging from Churches looking to discuss racism, oppression, hate, and fear.
I imagine if we did we just may discover the greatest evangelsim tool in 2,000 years.
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i had a very difficult time sitting through this movie. in fact, i got up and left the theater on three different occasions...i tell everyone it was the best movie i ever hated sitting through; it twisted my spirit so badly i actually felt physically ill.
if that is tmi, rick, please feel free to edit :)
I agree completely. I have seen the movie with all the people form my group, and we discussed a lot about it. It has incredible content.
I haven't used it in "evangelism", but because of the movie, I have had several nice talks with some non-christian friends.
Loved the movie. right between the eyes.
not to be a smart ass or any thing...but how about we do what the disciples did for evangelism
how about we love people and show them a transformed life? living full of the Holy Spirit, stop talking about what they don't do, and start doding it.
what used to work then, seems to be not good enough now.
who need fads and movies, when we have the Holy Spirit???
amen, as well.. i couldn't agree more.
the executive director of our church held a showing at his home, invited all of his neighbors and others from the church, simply to open up some dialogue. it was a gutsy and brave thing to do, but it worked.
we need to embrace this film and hopefully others like it that will follow.. not only to identify the latent issues of racism within us, but to seek forgiveness, to bring about healing and ultimately.. to restore us into the Kingdom that Christ always intended for us.
I too was over joyed to see "Crash" win best picture. I found it both heartbreaking and redemptive; a work of beauty through and through. But have found few people in my small congregation, here in Iowa, who have even seen it (much less heard of it). I need to see it again.
Hey Rick,
Another “Crash” fan here! I did a post a while back too. Here is something interesting that you may not have heard since your not local down here (Los Angeles area).
Apparently quite a few people are “up in arms” over the movie Crash because of the negative portrayal of the LA Police Dept.
They miss the point COMPLETELY! This film is an exaggerated tale of what ALL OF US are like, it had nothing to do with LA or the police dept. there, it had to have a location so LA made sense. You would not believe the callers on some of the talk shows I here putting down cops, and then the others calling in to say “yeah that’s right, all the LA cops hate blacks”. It’s sad but it kind of proves the whole point of the movie.
(Dude...I better go to my own blog and finish this comment - its turning into a post!!!)
You're right on the money. I couldn't agree more.
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