Tuesday, October 31, 2006

How did it come this?

From the official website of the new "christian" movie, Facing the Giants.


From the award-winning producers of FLYWHEEL comes a new, action-packed, family-friendly drama about a high school football coach who draws up a new game plan for his team … and himself.

In his six years of coaching, Grant Taylor has never had a winning season. Even the hope of a new season is squelched when the best player on his Shiloh Eagles decides to transfer schools. After losing their first three games of the season, the coach discovers a group of fathers are plotting to have him fired. Combined with pressures at home, Coach Taylor has lost hope in his battle against fear and failure.

However, an unexpected challenge helps him find a purpose bigger than just victories. Daring to trust God to do the impossible, Coach Taylor and the Eagles discover how faith plays out on the field … and off.

With God, all things are possible …


So is this the point of the Christian faith? To win football games? Why do Evangelicals think that Christianity will be more attractive if we make it into something that's "all about me"?
Think about it. The overarching point of this story is, "trust God and everything will be great, you'll even win football games!"
That's a far cry from the Christianity I read of in the Bible.
It's also a far cry from the excellence we should expect when Christians enter the arts. (Hello, Tolkein, Lewis!?"

Do people honestly consider this to be an effective "tool" for evangelism?

1 Comments:

Blogger Ryan DeBarr said...

When I first heard the name of the movie, I thought it would be about David and Goliath.

Then I found out it's a Christian version of Mighty Ducks.

Kah!

7:26 PM  

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