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I received a forwarded email today, asking me to help ban a new movie from reaching theaters in the U.S.  I honestly don’t even open up forwarded emails much anymore, but I did read this one.  It made me think too, for a good hour, before I decided to write back.  Yes – that’s right, I wrote back!  I really didn’t feel comfortable forwarding it on to my friends, but I needed to address the original email.  After it was all said and done I felt a little weird sending it back to the friend that forwarded it to me – after all, some folks pass these things on without too much thought, so I didn’t want to put anyone on the spot or anything.  But I did think that the ole blog would be a good place to air the original email and my response – perhaps it can create a productive dialogue about the subject.

 So here’s the original warning:

 Fw: Going beyond disrespect

The movie “Corpus Christi” is due to be released this June to August.  A disgusting film set to appear in America later this year depicts Jesus and his disciples as homosexuals!  As a play, this has already been in theatres for a while.  It’s called “Corpus Christi”  which means “The Body of Christ”.  It’s revolting mockery of our Lord and we can make a difference.  That’s why I am sending this e-mail to you. If you do send this around, we just might be able to prevent this film from showing in America.  Let’s stand for what we believe in and stop the mockery of Jesus Christ our Savior. Where do we stand as Christians?  At the risk of a bit of inconvenience, I’m forwarding this to all I think would appreciate it, too.  Please help us prevent such offenses against our Lord. There is no petition to sign, no time limit, or minimum number of people to send this to.  It will take you less than 2 minutes! If you are not interested and do not have the 2 minutes it will take to do this, please don’t complain when God does not have time for you because He is far busier than we are Hey, it’s worth a shot! Apparently, some regions in Europe have already banned the film.  All we need is a lot of prayer and a lot of emails.

JUST GET THE WORD OUT

 Here is my response:

I had not heard of this movie before, but if it truly depicts Christ as the forwarded email describes, then yes, it is a mockery of who Christ truly is.  I fear though that efforts from Christians to ban the film will only address the symptom of the problem and make us look like we are afraid of the falsehood contained in this movie.  Perhaps instead of picking up the proverbial picket signs (or forwarding emails in this case), we can think of ways to use this film to initiate dialogue about who Christ really is.  It is offensive that anyone suggest our Savior had ever sinned – regardless of the type of sin. But will our protest to the world’s misrepresentation of Jesus forfeit an opportunity to introduce them to the one, true Jesus?  The blessing in all of this is that it is they who are bringing up the subject of Christ.  They are expecting the Christian community to take offense – and rightfully so.  What if we don’t play out the tired, clichéd script of the self-righteous Christian and instead, take this opportunity to show these filmmakers grace – the grace that only the true Christ could show them.  After all, we may be the only true Christ they ever see.

 This is merely my two cents and can be disregarded as easily as you can click on the delete button.  I don’t suppose to have all of the answers, but I’m tired of my Christianity being defined by what I am against instead of what I am for.

 God bless,

 Dan

 

 Thoughts?

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