ANOTHER GOOD MOVIE?

I haven't seen End Of The Spear yet, for the simple reason that it isn't out on general release until tomorrow. Sure I was invited to a special premier showing in Manhattan for pastors, but I'm not so desperate to go to the movies that I need to trail all the way to the city. Add to that mix the fact that large gatherings of pastors can be the most boring and false environment you would ever wish not to be in and I think you get my drift.

So while I can't comment on the movie itself, I am very relieved to see that as a result of the success of Passion Of The Christ, Hollywood continues to see that there is a market for good, wholesome material.

As The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe continues to draw good crowds, the next made-for-a-Christian-audience adventure hits the big screen tomorrow. End Of The Spear centers around the martyrdom of five missionaries in Equador fifty years ago and focuses on the events that followed. It's a story of forgiveness, faith and of how the whole tribe that had killed the young missionaries was turned around and came to faith in Christ. I gather the movie says a bit more about social changes among them brought on by their new found faith than about their actual conversion, but it should be a great story.

It's certainly interesting that while one faction in Hollywood is celebrating a sick movie about gay cowboys that is struggling to draw audiences, another is far more in touch with what Americans really want and is doing its best to produce what the majority of us want to see.