http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/the-brown-sessions/gareth-higgins-pt-1-how-movies-helped-save-my-soul/ This blog needs a description! Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/the-brown-sessions/gareth-higgins-pt-1-how-movies-helped-save-my-soul/#comment-46159 MikeMcK Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:01:10 +0000 http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/the-brown-sessions/gareth-higgins-pt-1-how-movies-helped-save-my-soul/#comment-46159 I've read parts of this book. Everything I read is just more emergent church garbage. Steve Brown's followers will lap up every word. I've read parts of this book. Everything I read is just more emergent church garbage. Steve Brown's followers will lap up every word.

]]> http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/the-brown-sessions/gareth-higgins-pt-1-how-movies-helped-save-my-soul/#comment-46063 rick Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:52:24 +0000 http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/the-brown-sessions/gareth-higgins-pt-1-how-movies-helped-save-my-soul/#comment-46063 regarding the last temptation and the passion: i am a big movie fan and collect movies. that said; i originally liked the last temptation, but after i was saved i felt compelled to throw it out of my house. it was not that i felt it was from the devil, it was that i thought the director (who i think was, and may still be, lost) perverted the character of Jesus by making him too human to a fault. yes we are human, and made in His image, but He is perfect, and would not have thought such outlandish and humanly rebelious things. in the director's commentaries, scorsese says he believed in what the writer had to say. i do not. and thus dismiss that movie as one done by one who is not a true believer. the passion, on the other hand was extremely respectful and full of awe for the magnificence and majesty of our Creator. most of the film was acurate and true. and those who do not believe that, do not believe the truth. i am not writing these words to convince steve brown of anything. be it far from me to even attempt that. these words are simply my opinions of these movies as God has helped me to understand them. i can say that i consider the passion much more than a movie, because the Holy Spirit moves in me so, concerning that masterpiece. on the other hand, one of the first things the Spirit moved me to do when i was saved was to discard what i thought before was a good take on Jesus. so there it is. i understand that film and art can be studied and interpreted, but when you are concerning yourself with the subject of almighty God Himself, you better show appropriate respect and reverence, or else your work has failed. the subject of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is in a class by itself. no exceptions! the line has to be drawn somewhere. and that is one place where i draw the line. regarding the last temptation and the passion:
i am a big movie fan and collect movies. that said;
i originally liked the last temptation, but after i was saved i felt compelled to throw it out of my house. it was not that i felt it was from the devil, it was that i thought the director (who i think was, and may still be, lost) perverted the character of Jesus by making him too human to a fault. yes we are human, and made in His image, but He is perfect, and would not have thought such outlandish and humanly rebelious things. in the director's commentaries, scorsese says he believed in what the writer had to say. i do not. and thus dismiss that movie as one done by one who is not a true believer.
the passion, on the other hand was extremely respectful and full of awe for the magnificence and majesty of our Creator. most of the film was acurate and true. and those who do not believe that, do not believe the truth.
i am not writing these words to convince steve brown of anything. be it far from me to even attempt that. these words are simply my opinions of these movies as God has helped me to understand them. i can say that i consider the passion much more than a movie, because the Holy Spirit moves in me so, concerning that masterpiece. on the other hand, one of the first things the Spirit moved me to do when i was saved was to discard what i thought before was a good take on Jesus. so there it is. i understand that film and art can be studied and interpreted, but when you are concerning yourself with the subject of almighty God Himself, you better show appropriate respect and reverence, or else your work has failed. the subject of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is in a class by itself. no exceptions! the line has to be drawn somewhere. and that is one place where i draw the line.

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