I remember Zachary Levi from his days on Chuck (before I had to stop watching it because the content just became too immoral to enjoy anymore). I was REALLY looking forward to a faith-based movie WITH Zachary…two good things rolled into one.
But then the content review came out and I realized I couldn’t watch the faith-based movie in good conscience with the Lord, and I was really disappointed.
Just in case anyone is curious, these were the show stoppers for me:
PROFANITY
At least 5 damns, 3 hells, 3 uses of “Oh my God” and 1 use of “God.”
SEX/NUDITY
[Before marriage] Brenda and Kurt make out and she starts to remove his shirt as the scene ends.
Just because it may be “reality”, doesn’t mean it has to be in the final product.
“Faith” movies have to use a little “God license” to clean up stories that have good testimonies in the end.
Phrases can be modified to exclude profanity and still convey the message.
Scenes don’t have to be included that show sensual sexual conduct. People don’t have to show their torso skin (yes, including shirtless men as I seem to remember MEN COVERING in the Bible).
The Hiding Place (altho I now know it did contain a few d-words so I wouldn’t watch it now) didn’t show naked bodies but we knew what was happening.
Unbroken: Path to Redemption didn’t contain profanity but we still understood the ugliness.
The Kendrick Brothers have done an excellent job at producing quality faith-based movies without compromising content, and there are many others who have done the same.
Sadly, however, there are some movies labeled ”faith-based” that have chosen to now include what faith-based films were meant to exclude: profanity, nudity, extreme violence. This is such a disappointing chain of events.
Faith-based movie makers must rise to the challenge and work creatively to keep their films to a level of purity that is able to tell the story with its redeeming points intact without requiring their audience to be subjected to unholy content that will compromise what we are charged by God to put into our hearts through our eyes and ears.
Remember, anything we LISTEN to or SEE is FEEDING our minds and hearts and spirits.
Remember the old acronym GIGO? It referred to a computer’s programming, and meant ”garbage in garbage out”, which meant if the programming isn’t good, neither will be the computer.
ScreenIt.com is an excellent tool to prescreen entertainment choices to protect ourselves and young ones from absorbing “entertaining” sin in movies.
If we want to live for Christ, every ingredient we use the money He entrusts to us, ingest into ourselves (even intellectually and via entertainment choices) and serve up to our children, counts!
What are we feeding our children and ourselves? WWJD?
Amen, Sister!!! I wholeheartedly agree! What we take into our minds sticks, whether we like it or not!
Wow! Good to know! Thanks! I am also very careful about what I watch. I want to know that Jesus would be happy that I’m seeing what I’m seeing. Entertainment has sadly become an idol to many, worshiping it over God, which is against His Commandments. Scary.