Pizzas and the Da Vinci Code
At the Monday cell group this week, there was a pizza and video night at our house. It was good to sit around a table and talk together. For the film, it had been decided to watch The Da Vinci Code, as no one in the group had seen it, and the others thought it might be useful to see it in order to speak with others about it. However it might not have been such a good choice, as two non Christian husbands came as well (which in itself was good, especially as one has only just started coming to church). But maybe it was a good choice after all, because I said a few things afterwards about some of the film’s historical inaccuracies, and especially because of the discussion on some of the sentences said towards the end of the film - “Does it matter if Jesus was divine or human?” (when it obviously did, as the person who said it prayed to Jesus when he was in trouble) and “What is important is what you believe in.”
November 19th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
[…] Two messages ago I mentioned some doubts I had that the Da Vinci Code had been an appropriate film to watch in the cell group, given the presence of two non Christian husbands. I don’t know how much the film and subsequent discussion contributed, but during the week one of them rang one of the elders to say that he wanted to be converted. This was the first time that he had come to one of the cell groups meetings, and we are encouraging him to become a regular part of the group to help him grow. His wife has been attending the church for a year, after a couple of years with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. She became a Christian a few months ago, but her husband just thought it was another of her ‘whims’ - first the Jehovah’s Witnesses, then the Evangelicals. But she and others had been praying for him, and at the end of August he started coming to the church services. Now he has obviously understood that it is not just a whim, but a real change that has happened in his wife, a change that he wants as well. So pray for him and the family (they have three boys as well). […]