Audacity

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Product description ------------------- This DVD will teach you how to overcome your fear and share the gospel lovingly, yet without compromise, with those who practice sexuality. But it doesn't stop there. Review ------ Anyone who has read my reviews of Christian films knows that generally, I'm not a fan. The writing is usually very bad, the acting is often even worse, and they usually look (and sound) like they were in a church gymnasium. They are often sappy, unrealistic, and so obviously evangelistic that they shouldn't really be called films but propaganda pieces. That last point could be forgivable if the film quality and writing had redeemable qualities. Since they usually do not, Christian film generally stinks. Last year, Living Waters announced that they were going to do an evangelistic movie on the issue of sexuality. To be perfectly honest, to say that I was expecting more of the same would be an understatement. When the first trailer dropped, it gave me pause vas is ist? Some unknown actors delivering lines in a believable way? A ray of hope! As time and the filming went on, my doubts resurfaced and I assumed that the film would end with a Good Person Test, the main character coming to faith in Christ, and some gratuitous tear-jerkers along the way. What distinguishes this film from the rest of what passes for Christian film is that it doesn't try to do what it knows it cannot. There is no effort to draw on some washed up Hollywood leftover like most of the DVD's in your local Christian bookstore. There are no half baked special effects which look only like lame attempts to imitate good Hollywood special effects. There is no Pollyanna scripting that leaves the main character dying on a sidewalk in the rain outside of a Newsboys concert where people are running down the proverbial aisle like rats jumping off of a sinking ship. What you DO have is sincere, excellent acting, particularly by Molly Ritter in her role as Diana. Travis Owens who plays the role of Peter, the earnest Christian bicycle delivery guy, also does a very good job, but Ritter walks away with this film. The scripting for the dramatized sections is well done. Finally, we have a Christian movie where an unbeliever does NOT convert through a simplistic gospel presentation, but who (believably) is considering the gospel at the end. What I liked the most about the movie was the way that Peter's character is portrayed; struggling with the real issues while presenting the gospel to sexual friends. The main gift to the Church in this film is the attitude that Peter models for us. Sacrificial, level headed and loving in short, everything sexuals think we are not. As long as evangelicals allow Fox News and other neo-con media outlets dictate the conversation on the issue of sexual marriage we allow them to type cast us as uncaring, unfeeling idiots. If the Church can grasp the model we have here in Peter s character, without insincerely parroting his words and actions but letting them flow out of a genuine love for Christ and for people there would be a revolution in the culture war on sexual marriage. Imagine what it would be like if sexuals took us seriously as we presented the cls of Christ. Imitate this example and you might find out. By the way, the sexuals were not type cast in this movie. They were believable. That's a step forward for the entire movie industry, not just Christian film. Hollywood does itself no favors when they depict sexuals as flamboyantly as possible. They should take a lesson from Comfort and crew. It is not necessary to make sexuals look ridiculous. The irony is that Hollywood seems to think that it helps their cause. --Jon Speed, GospelSpam.com 'Audacity' hits a home run! --The Dove Foundation