Saved... and so completely wrong
Saved... a new independent film with Mandy Moore and others - is a story about several high school students at a Christian High School. It is a perfect Christian Utopia. All the Chriatianese is used, and all sense of reality is lost. It exaggerates the ways that those immersed in a Christian community live. Then, two weeks before their senior year starts, everything goes wrong.Mary (main character in the film) is told by her boyfriend that he thinks that he is gay. She then sees a vision in which Jesus tells her "He needs you very much right now". She attempts to "de-gay" him and ends up sleeping with him, and gets pregnant.
The story goes to show how they are both ostracized from the Christian community. You really have to see the movie to get how bad it is. And the worst part of it all, even though the movie exaggerates many points, it is not too far from the truth. Think about the things that happen to good people in life. Yet in the Christian community the visible sin is turned into an abomination. You can't be an alcoholic, a drug addict, pregnant, somebody who cusses, smokes... you get the idea. We all put on this show of being these perfect people, when that is completely opposite of how we are called to live. We are called to be humble, the lowest, servants. Yet we live as if our poo don't stink. Why? Why can't we live as the broken people we are? Why can't we love people as the broken people they are? Why can't we love like Jesus did - looking beyond the sin (visible or invisible) and loving the individual despite their weaknesses and struggles? How much more amazing would this world be if we loved people in that way?
Lets start living so unselfishly that we are able to see past the temptation to make ourselves feel better when another falls that we humble ourselves to where they are at - and love them as who they are - a child of God.
posted by Devo @ 10:03 PM
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