As an older generation of Christians passes, their way of following Jesus appears to be dying with them.

And they continue to be well received because many Christians perceive a threat: namely, that other voices in contemporary culture will overwhelm traditional expressions of Christian belief.Ĭultural understanding seems to be changing on everything from familial responsibility to gender identity to our sense of connection with a community. These movies provide clear accounts of why we ought to have faith in Jesus Christ.

This conclusion, an argument for the certainty of faith, reveals a fairly constant trend in recent Christian films. “The Case for Christ” asserts that only one who chooses to ignore the evidence could fail to see that Jesus is Lord. What he found, however, is that with each expert, his own understanding of the narratives deepened and the truth of these “eyewitness” accounts was revealed: The only way all of this evidence could exist would be if there were, indeed, a man named Jesus who rose from the dead. Strobel spoke to every expert he could find in hope of disproving the winding, contradictory and self-referencing accounts in Scripture. Strobel’s work has been used for years as a go-to for evangelicals because it is about an intelligent, competent professional whose intellectual conversion came before his spiritual one. But as the story unfolds, Strobel’s selfishness, intellectual pride and inability to address a deep-seated sense of woundedness stemming from his relationship with his father reveal the true motivations behind his refusal to believe in God.īased on the best-selling autobiography of the same name, “The Case for Christ” is an enjoyable film with a premise now well-known in evangelical circles. Ostensibly, Lee’s intent is to save his wife from getting sucked into what he fears may be a cult. “The Case for Christ” is the story of a Chicago Tribune editor (and atheist) named Lee Strobel, who undertakes the task of debunking the “myth” of Christianity after his wife’s unexpected conversion. Somber Movie-Trailer Voice: “In a world.that is progressively non-religious, and violently atheistic.one Christian will learn to profess his belief, facing the challenge to prove his faith in Jesus Christ.” Titles like “Heaven is for Real,” “God’s Not Dead” (1 and 2) and the newly released “The Case for Christ” offer a sense of what is in store. We might feel we know the characters of Christian movies from the moment we sit down to watch them. The Cynical Naysayer Converted by a Simple Truth.

The Kind, Ethnically Interesting Wisdom Figure.

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