Courageous

Well, Em and I went and saw the film Courageous. We both thought it was good and fairly well done (much better than other films we've seen in recent years with overtly Christian themes). It's worth seeing. In fact, a group of men from our church are going to see it together for a men's outing. It'd be a good one to do with kids, too, and then follow it up with a lunch or dinner to talk about it. Manhood issues are huge today, among the greatest concerns of our day, I believe, and we need to think about these things much more than we are accustomed to doing. This is but one tool toward repairing the ruins.

We ought to pray and labor for more of this sort of thing being done, and being done better and better. Christians are only beginning to make a go at using all manner of media to the glory of Christ and the edification of his Church. For it to reach full bloom, however, we desperately need revival and reformation within the languishing North American church. To move us away from a truncated and privatized faith, and toward a worldviewish and all-encompassing faith, we need the Spirit to blow through our hearts, homes, churches, and (not insignificantly) our schools. (On second thought, we need the Spirit to create new schools to blow through.) We need worldviewish preaching and teaching that exalts Jesus as Lord of all. As Abraham Kuyper once famously said, there is not one square inch of the universe over which the risen Christ does not say, "Mine!" So come, Holy Spirit, come.

Till then, let us be thankful for efforts like Courageous. But let's pray and labor and long for more of the same, and even greater works than these. There's far more work to be done.