I have been a devoted Christian for over 11 years, regularly attending services, reading my Bible and praying daily, and walking the walk. I’d like to see more spiritual movies, but the sad fact is most Christian screenplays are high on meaning and low on storytelling. This keeps these screenplays from being made. One type of analysis offered is taking a Christian or Biblical based screenplay and helping make it the best story to get across the message that the writer wants conveyed. This analysis will be similar to my regular analysis but will also emphasize storytelling techniques.
Many times the way the Bible and Christianity is portrayed in movies is not close to the Bible so for the writer that wants to correctly show an aspect of the bible, I can be the expert witness on how to make their script authentically Christian.
I believe that anything that is really truth, is a truth from God. So movies about some true aspect of life is teaching part of God. Stories can teach lessons without mentioning Jesus, God or the Bible. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 13:10:
This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
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