THE DAVINCI CODE
This morning was one of those good times at the gym. I walked 6.5 miles and felt that I could have gone longer. The only restriction was not that I had run out of breath, but rather that I had come to the end of the time I had available today for exercise.
Time may have passed quickly because I was listening to a great message by Ed Young Jr - it was on Hell, maybe that helped too. I'll make a few notes on that while the thoughts are fresh in my mind and folks will probably hear them during my summer series on heaven. The other podcast I heard today was the regular fun show from Granger Community Church in Indiana. It was recorded last week and they were talking about the new series - Unlocking The DaVinci Code - that they were starting on Easter Sunday.
It's tough to get away from the DaVinci Code at the moment. The marketers are doing their utmost to get everyone talking about it ahead of the release of the movie next month and then there's a whole bunch of Christian writers, marketers, etc who want to draw our attention to it so that we buy their materials and do series like Granger is doing.
A pastor friend of mine on the Island called the other day and asked if we were doing a series on The DaVinci Code and when I told him we were not planning to he seemed surprised. Let me explain, it's not that I think it's a bad idea, but it's just that we have our focus for May planned already. Anyway, when did Grace ever fall in line with everyone else?
May is always our missions focus month and starting on Mothers' Day, the 14th, we're going to be focusing on spreading the gospel at home and overseas using the theme - SHINE!
I feel a bit like Nehemiah who when asked to come and talk about what he was doing rebuilding Jerusalem said - I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Missions is a great work, so I'm not planning on being sidetracked by a work of fiction, a Tom Hanks movie or Christian marketers who are after our money.
When The DaVinci Code has come and gone the work of reaching people for Jesus will still need to be done.
Time may have passed quickly because I was listening to a great message by Ed Young Jr - it was on Hell, maybe that helped too. I'll make a few notes on that while the thoughts are fresh in my mind and folks will probably hear them during my summer series on heaven. The other podcast I heard today was the regular fun show from Granger Community Church in Indiana. It was recorded last week and they were talking about the new series - Unlocking The DaVinci Code - that they were starting on Easter Sunday.
It's tough to get away from the DaVinci Code at the moment. The marketers are doing their utmost to get everyone talking about it ahead of the release of the movie next month and then there's a whole bunch of Christian writers, marketers, etc who want to draw our attention to it so that we buy their materials and do series like Granger is doing.
A pastor friend of mine on the Island called the other day and asked if we were doing a series on The DaVinci Code and when I told him we were not planning to he seemed surprised. Let me explain, it's not that I think it's a bad idea, but it's just that we have our focus for May planned already. Anyway, when did Grace ever fall in line with everyone else?
May is always our missions focus month and starting on Mothers' Day, the 14th, we're going to be focusing on spreading the gospel at home and overseas using the theme - SHINE!
I feel a bit like Nehemiah who when asked to come and talk about what he was doing rebuilding Jerusalem said - I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Missions is a great work, so I'm not planning on being sidetracked by a work of fiction, a Tom Hanks movie or Christian marketers who are after our money.
When The DaVinci Code has come and gone the work of reaching people for Jesus will still need to be done.
posted by Roger Blackmore | 10:13 AM
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