A movie poster is stirring controversy for its depiction of a pastor with a gun. Machine Gun Preacher is the story of a drug dealer converted to Christ. The film is based on the true story of brawling biker Sam Childers, who became an evangelical preacher, traveling to Sudan where he organized armed missions to rescue children kidnapped by gorilla fighters and forced to become soldiers or sex slaves. The film will be shown at Toronto Film Festival next month and in some US cities starting September 23. The action-drama was directed by Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Quantum of Solace) who says at his first meeting with Childers they nearly came to blows. Childers still runs the mission he built. Here's the trailer.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Machine Gun Preacher
A movie poster is stirring controversy for its depiction of a pastor with a gun. Machine Gun Preacher is the story of a drug dealer converted to Christ. The film is based on the true story of brawling biker Sam Childers, who became an evangelical preacher, traveling to Sudan where he organized armed missions to rescue children kidnapped by gorilla fighters and forced to become soldiers or sex slaves. The film will be shown at Toronto Film Festival next month and in some US cities starting September 23. The action-drama was directed by Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Quantum of Solace) who says at his first meeting with Childers they nearly came to blows. Childers still runs the mission he built. Here's the trailer.
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Matthew 26:52; "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
Many Christians will take this line and decide that what Sam is doing is wrong. So, lets take a closer look at the saying that Christ said to his Disciples.
First,lets take a look at the situation. Mathew 26:47; While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the elders of the people.
So, now we can see from this statement that Jesus and his disciples were out numbered and out gunned. If the disciples were to have fought they all would have perished and all the time Jesus spent training them for the next phase in spreading the word would have been for nothing. It is obvious now that Jesus was issuing the order for them to use common sense. Now ask yourself the question, if your wife and child were being raped and beaten in front of you would Jesus want you to turn the other cheek? If our bodies are to be the temple of the Holy Spirit then common sense says to protect them. Indeed Jesus did say to turn the other cheek, but even Jesus used violence when appropriate, John 2:13-16. Never once in the Bible does it say to through out common sense.
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