Churches must support faith-based films in culture that has 'ever-increasing anger' toward Christians
By: Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post Reporter
It’s great that they are making some movies and documentaries for Christian audiences. It’s also good that some studios have a unit devoted to producing and marketing such films. I’m a big fan of Kevin Sorbo and the movies he’s been in. It’s also great that the streaming service Pureflix exists to give us wholesome TV entertainment.
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"God's Not Dead" and "Hercules" actor Kevin Sorbo has urged churches of all sizes to back faith-based and God-glorifying films, especially in a culture that has an “ever-increasing anger” toward Christians.
“I get stopped, and 80% of the time people say, ‘Please make more movies like ['God’s Not Dead'],’” Sorbo revealed in an interview on Abby Johnson’s hit podcast, "Politely Rude."
“It’s amazing — pastors will stop me and say, ‘You can reach so many people. I'm a pastor of a small church.’ And I go, ‘I don’t care how small your church is. We need your support.’”
“I shoot 3, 4 million dollar movies. That's the catering budget on 'Pirates of the Caribbean' or ‘Avengers.' Those are $300 million movies," he continued. "The only way we can get these [faith-based films] out there is if we have the magic that we had for 'God's Not Dead,' where a $2 million budget makes $140 million movie. That was powerful word of mouth, and we need that. We need churches of all sizes to say ‘Hey, go see these movies.’”
The actor, who has been in the film industry since the 1980s, is the narrator of the new documentary “ Before the Wrath ." According to the film’s description, the documentary is based on true discoveries from the time of Christ and features researchers in the Middle East who've discovered new evidence that proves the prophesied Rapture is not only real, but why it must soon come to pass.
Sorbo described the documentary — which landed the No. 1 spot on Amazon’s "documentary" section — as an “amazing, educational look at the book of Revelation.”
“It’s a combination of pastors and priests and rabbis and experts on the Bible and whatever doctorates they may hold, plus mixed with 2,000 years ago, where it's during Jesus' time,” he said. “It goes back and forth ... it’s really cool how they did this, and how they tied it into the Old Testament and the New Testament.”
“What's cool about it is that anybody can watch it, even dummies like me can really get educated on the breakdown of the Second Coming of Christ,” he said.
The actor stressed that there’s no “hysteria” in the documentary, adding: “It’s just an interesting, educated look at the final chapter of the New Testament. And it's fascinating.”
Johnson said she loves the book of Revelation because it helps the Church have a “healthy” fear of the Lord. She noted that God has become “squishy” and “whitewashed” in today’s culture, with people focusing primarily on a God of love rather than on His justice and judgment.
“And that's true. God is love, but God is also just right. And I think the book of Revelation shows us that justice, and that helps bring about a sense of fear, a sense of respect of the Lord, and I feel like that's something that we're really missing in our society today,” she said.
Sorbo agreed that culture has an “ever-increasing anger toward Christians.”
“I don't really quite understand it, but you know they deny God. They hate God. They resent God,” he said. “I played one in 'God's Not Dead;' I was a college professor that was so angry about something he didn't believe in, and you see that play out all the time.”
“Atheism is a faith; to believe in absolutely nothing — if only Christians could be that strong in their own faith because that’s pretty powerful,” he said.
Sorbo also narrates the recently-released documentary “Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science" and stars in the faith-based film “The Girl Who Believes in Miracles.”
The latter movie, Sorbo said, is about a young girl who hears her pastor say, "If you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can move mountains." She starts to pray, and miraculous things start happening in her town.
"There's no walking on water, but there are things that happen that wake people up," the actor said. "I think miracles happen every day but we're so caught up on our six-second world that people don't pay attention anymore. We're too impatient. And I think there are wonderful things that happen all the time. This movie is one of those movies that make you go, 'Wow, OK, what a great little movie.'"
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What the fuck is so hard for idiots like Sorbo to understand, atheism is a lack in a belief in a deity. That’s it. Nothing more nothing less. No tenets, no rules, no requirements of any kind.
Maybe they are so insecure and unsure of themselves that they feel like everyone has to have some sort of manual or set of guiding principles laid out for them? That because they cannot give their own lives meaning or purpose no one else can? That’s really the only reason I can come up with as to why they keep insisting that I have some sort of faith in atheism (which again is a lack of belief in a deity and nothing else).
I am a liberal agnostic. I don't believe there is a God, but who am I to say there isn't.
A rational person.
There's no "ever increasing anger". Apathy ? Yes, there is that. Under 50% of Americans belong to a religious congregation.
Haha, I get irritated when religious folks try to impose their beliefs on me, otherwise I ignore them entirely until they bring it up.
I wasn’t talking about your stupid movies.
Abby Johnson ... she's loads of fun! That (insert insulting descriptive here) thinks households should only get one vote and that vote is to be decided by the husband.
Well in the Bible women are second class citizens, really just a hair above sub-human so that makes sense lol.
Lol dude, shut the fuck up. You know nothing about yo ur religion, your holy book, or the history of said religion and the areas it infected.
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CoH violations sure, but no value? Eh maybe, i don’t even know what comment you deleted
"There's no walking on water,"
Good that trick known before Jesus was as tiresome then as it is now.
I once told an ex boss of mine that I was overdue for a promotion and deserved it. He told me I could have it when I walked on water. I took the glass of water from his desk and spilled it on the floor. I then walked on it. Guess who got the promotion.
XX I know a lot of Christians and none of them are constantly complaining about being hated by non-belivers nor do they feel that they are being persecuted by anyone or are their religious freedoms being taken from them. So seeing you post multiple articles on how everyone is picking on Christians is bizarre, to say the least.
The reality of it is that no one is taking your religious freedoms. Why is it necessary to constantly bombard NT with this totally false narrative? Are you seeking attention, are you paranoid, or is it that you simply don't know what you're talking about.
In the US it was the Christians that took religious freedom from others. A review of our history might be beneficial for you, you should actually try it sometime as your constant wearing a crown of thorns is really quite boring and really doesn't do much except to show that you don't seem to know much about Christianity or it's place in our society.
For someone who constantly likes to let it be known how Christian and shit they are and rub it in everyone’s face (probably has a lot of skeletons) husker here sure as shit doesn’t seem to know anything about it.
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I have yet to see anyone who claims christians are being persecuted in this country actually demonstrate where that is happening. So far, it's all been baseless whining.
Could the answer be D) All of the above
Q: Why doesn’t God just punish people like me who relentlessly mock him, instead of spreading deadly COVID in churches full of people who are praising him?
A: Because he doesn’t exist.