“The Chosen” Fiction

[Channah]

Hi everyone! Long time.

I saw the movie twice. My perception was it was not really about what Scripture was all about. It was a story of how staid the church was until Chuck's daughter brought home a hippie and how Chuck opened up his church to let "undesirables" in. It was also a story of how Greg Laurie got into Christianity.

I did not see anything about homosexuality with Lonnie Frisbee but he was a character (unfortunately he went down the wrong path). It showed how Chuck Smith had to rethink things with Lonnie Frisbee as he was getting into the Katherine Kuhlman type of nonsense and let him go.

For what it's worth, it is basically a movie about Greg Laurie and Chuck Smith. I went twice because my aunty wanted to see it.

 

[NewWine2020]

Hi everyone! Long time.

I saw the movie twice. My perception was it was not really about what Scripture was all about. It was a story of how staid the church was until Chuck's daughter brought home a hippie and how Chuck opened up his church to let "undesirables" in. It was also a story of how Greg Laurie got into Christianity.

I did not see anything about homosexuality with Lonnie Frisbee but he was a character (unfortunately he went down the wrong path). It showed how Chuck Smith had to rethink things with Lonnie Frisbee as he was getting into the Katherine Kuhlman type of nonsense and let him go.

For what it's worth, it is basically a movie about Greg Laurie and Chuck Smith. I went twice because my aunty wanted to see it.

My wife and I saw this via streaming just last night. I have mixed feelings.

It was certainly an emotional and "feel good" film and it feels like it was primarily an "origin story" of how Greg Laurie came to seek Christ. Watching the film, they did not (thankfully) even make a reference to Lonnie's homosexual past, the "failing" that I think they showcased was his growing pride and arrogance, thinking it was all about the Power that God was demonstrating through him.

I remember at one point when he was having a meltdown he told Laurie's character "I Told God to use me!" and that caught my eye...it should certainly be " I ASKED God to use me!" so, they used this and his growing obsession with "charismatic" theatrics and what came across as snake oil salesmen faith healing dramatizations to show how he burned his bridge with Chuck.

Having dug furtherer into the background on the principal characters it just makes me very sad, Pastor Greg Laurie (via TBN along with Hal Lindsey) is one of the first pastors that really reached me with Christ's message when I was hitting real rock bottom mentally, physically and spiritually.

It really makes you think, how every single "popular" piece of Christian media that makes itself available to the public in big budget format...Jesus Revolution....The Chosen....The Passion....is always, inexplicably compromised in some stealthy way until you remember who the temporary "god" of this world really is. Let's face it; satan owns the media and he uses it as much as he can to his benefit and our detriment....

...but, if it prompts someone to dig deeper into who Jesus Christ truly is and what he actually accomplished for us (while we were yet sinners) than God will still use the flawed message (and messengers) to his glory and our salvation.

 

[Eli1]

Omg, I love this series. The season3 finale made me cry.
The best series in a while and it has turned so many atheists towards God.
All some people need is a little message of Hope to guide them in their next steps.

 

[Andy C]

Omg, I love this series. The season3 finale made me cry.
The best series in a while and it has turned so many atheists towards God.
All some people need is a little message of Hope to guide them in their next steps.

https://www.raptureforums.com/forum...as-a-behavior-nazi-but.200788/#post-843702429

 

[Andy C]

chew the fruit and spit out the pits.

Thats a keeper line!!!!!!!

 

[SkyRider]

I like to listen to podcasts put out by the Berean Call ministry, the ministry founded by Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, the author of the opening to this thread. He had one entitled Visual Idolatry, where he spoke of the depiction of Jesus in these types of films and how people resonate with the attractive sometimes looks of the actors who portray Jesus and how they are drawn in by just the physical appearance of the actor: Anglo- looking, long hair, blue eyes sometimes, etc. McMahon used to work in Hollywood and is keenly aware of how to lure in an audience, but now is dismayed at how people can be guilty of attaching a face to Jesus and falling for it. He interviewed some people to get their comments of why they were drawn in to such depictions and then he proposed to them another actor that they should use in the portrayal just to get their feedback on his question. Whenever I think back on who he suggested, it still cracks me up. He asked them what they thought of the choice to use Danny DeVito to fill the role, and of course they just recoiled in horror. What?! Why him? He is not even close to resembling what Jesus should look like and other similar comments. He knew of course that they would hate the idea but was just trying to prove the point that it is wrong to put forth a face for people to dwell on when they reflect on the characteristics of Christ.

 

[Jan51]

I like to listen to podcasts put out by the Berean Call ministry, the ministry founded by Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, the author of the opening to this thread. He had one entitled Visual Idolatry, where he spoke of the depiction of Jesus in these types of films and how people resonate with the attractive sometimes looks of the actors who portray Jesus and how they are drawn in by just the physical appearance of the actor: Anglo- looking, long hair, blue eyes sometimes, etc. McMahon used to work in Hollywood and is keenly aware of how to lure in an audience, but now is dismayed at how people can be guilty of attaching a face to Jesus and falling for it. He interviewed some people to get their comments of why they were drawn in to such depictions and then he proposed to them another actor that they should use in the portrayal just to get their feedback on his question. Whenever I think back on who he suggested, it still cracks me up. He asked them what they thought of the choice to use Danny DeVito to fill the role, and of course they just recoiled in horror. What?! Why him? He is not even close to resembling what Jesus should look like and other similar comments. He knew of course that they would hate the idea but was just trying to prove the point that it is wrong to put forth a face for people to dwell on when they reflect on the characteristics of Christ.

Wouldn't an actor taking on the name and image of Christ fall under the second and third commandments?

 

[SkyRider]

Wouldn't an actor taking on the name and image of Christ fall under the second and third commandments?

Sure it would