Product description
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This DVD will teach you how to overcome your fear
and share the gospel lovingly, yet without compromise, with those
who practice sexuality. But it doesn't stop there.
Review
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Anyone who has read my reviews of Christian films
knows that generally, I'm not a fan. The writing is usually very
bad, the acting is often even worse, and they usually look (and
sound) like they were in a church gymnasium. They are often
sappy, unrealistic, and so obviously evangelistic that they
shouldn't really be called films but propaganda pieces. That last
point could be forgivable if the film quality and writing had
redeemable qualities. Since they usually do not, Christian film
generally stinks.
Last year, Living Waters announced that they were going to do an
evangelistic movie on the issue of sexuality. To be perfectly
honest, to say that I was expecting more of the same would be an
understatement. When the first trailer dropped, it gave me pause
vas is ist? Some unknown actors delivering lines in a believable
way? A ray of hope! As time and the filming went on, my doubts
resurfaced and I assumed that the film would end with a Good
Person Test, the main character coming to faith in Christ, and
some gratuitous tear-jerkers along the way.
What distinguishes this film from the rest of what passes for
Christian film is that it doesn't try to do what it knows it
cannot. There is no effort to draw on some washed up Hollywood
leftover like most of the DVD's in your local Christian
bookstore. There are no half baked special effects which look
only like lame attempts to imitate good Hollywood special
effects. There is no Pollyanna scripting that leaves the main
character dying on a sidewalk in the rain outside of a Newsboys
concert where people are running down the proverbial aisle like
rats jumping off of a sinking ship.
What you DO have is sincere, excellent acting, particularly by
Molly Ritter in her role as Diana. Travis Owens who plays the
role of Peter, the earnest Christian bicycle delivery guy, also
does a very good job, but Ritter walks away with this film. The
scripting for the dramatized sections is well done. Finally, we
have a Christian movie where an unbeliever does NOT convert
through a simplistic gospel presentation, but who (believably) is
considering the gospel at the end.
What I liked the most about the movie was the way that Peter's
character is portrayed; struggling with the real issues while
presenting the gospel to sexual friends. The main gift to the
Church in this film is the attitude that Peter models for us.
Sacrificial, level headed and loving in short, everything
sexuals think we are not.
As long as evangelicals allow Fox News and other neo-con media
outlets dictate the conversation on the issue of sexual
marriage we allow them to type cast us as uncaring, unfeeling
idiots. If the Church can grasp the model we have here in Peter s
character, without insincerely parroting his words and actions
but letting them flow out of a genuine love for Christ and for
people there would be a revolution in the culture war on
sexual marriage. Imagine what it would be like if sexuals
took us seriously as we presented the cls of Christ. Imitate
this example and you might find out.
By the way, the sexuals were not type cast in this movie.
They were believable. That's a step forward for the entire movie
industry, not just Christian film. Hollywood does itself no
favors when they depict sexuals as flamboyantly as possible.
They should take a lesson from Comfort and crew. It is not
necessary to make sexuals look ridiculous. The irony is that
Hollywood seems to think that it helps their cause.
--Jon Speed, GospelSpam.com
'Audacity' hits a home run!
--The Dove Foundation