Lord, Save Us From Your Followers

http://lordsaveusthemovie.com/

A few years ago, every conservafundagelical church in the country advertized the greatest evangelism opportunity in the history of the world: The Passion of the Christ. I saw it. Twice. I took over ten people with me. It was perhaps the most important movie I've ever seen, and it shook me to my core.

It fell flat with just about everyone else.

As Christians, we sometimes think that if we just get the story out in a bigger venue, then people will flock to the faith. The lack of conversions caused by the Passion seems to refute that point. Before the gospel can be welcomed, we need to earn the right to be heard in the public marketplace of ideas. The Church sometimes still acts as if our neighbors are just waiting for us to shout the message in the right key or at the right volume or in the right pictures for them to flock to our doors. They are not waiting for us to say anything differently. They are waiting for (if anything) us to repent.

Before Jesus asked us to believe, he asked us to repent - to examine ourselves, confess our brokenness, and commit to a new way of living. Repenting comes before believing in Mark 1: 14.

Lord, Save Us From Your Followers gets it. Dan Merchant is a believer, a committed-to-his-core disciple who understands that WE need to follow Jesus' example of repenting first (something about a splinter and a log comes to mind...) and telling others what to believe later. Perhaps even deeper, Merchant argues that it is more important to love than to get our theology right.

This is a brilliant movie. Check it out at the links above or below and click the free preview.
http://lordsaveusthemovie.com/

God's Peace, Rich
www.lifesongchristiancommunities.org