Preface: Here is why you need to take the time to go out and see this film. It's Monday morning....another week ahead of us....may the Lord uphold His children in these difficult times. I turned on talk radio and the lunacy is getting worse....as the host laughed in derision like a juvenile....at jokes from callers on how they wear a mask everywhere but over their mouth....and telling them that everything on the coronavirus is about control. It used to be that I would listen to talk radio and a truck driver would call in and begin with...."I'm just a truck driver...."....and I would think to myself....'don't say that....you are one of America's finest.....and you are as logical as any of them if not more'....but talk radio is changing them. The long and short of it is that we evangelicals and conservatives no longer know our own faith....and have a warped and manipulated sense of what freedom is. We get practically nothing of value to protect against delusion and false teaching and false prophets from our pulpits today who have terribly let us and their Lord down. Being in this state of confusion.....but still desiring to serve God....we reach out in the darkness and with the guidance....not of God's Word....but talk radio hosts and podcasts....have their manipulations implanted in our minds. We question nothing....as our powers of examination are gone. That is why this film described below is important....for it is an intellectual feast....if nothing else exercising a once vigilant but since atrophied gift of a mind. As for the concept of freedom....I encourage you to listen to a message by J. C. Ryle that directly addresses freedom and the Christian. Just Google up.....J.C. Ryle, Freedom.
The film was scheduled for a one-night only showing in 400+ theaters across America.....but the turnout was so good.....with theaters selling out....and it came in second to Dune as to percentage of viewers to theaters.....that it is getting a few more days starting this Friday I believe.....and Lord willing I will be there.
Oh.....what might the movie be? Well....let me start it this way.....His most famous book was probably....probably the second Christian book that I read as I was just beginning to taste the joys of this wonderful and glorious Savior Jesus Christ.....Mere Christianity.....by C. S. Lewis....and it had a huge effect on me....as it had on so many others.
'Those were the days my friend'.....is how the Mary Hopkin 1968 hit song song begins. Or if you wish....All In The Family's theme song sung by Archie and Edith....would end refrains with..."Those were the days." I remember those days.....in my case in the 80s....when people....workmates....were getting 'saved' right and left....and C. S. Lewis's books were part of that.
OK....the movie title is The Most Reluctant Convert....based on the popular one-man stage production. C. S. Lewis was an Oxford Don....who came kicking and screaming to faith in Christ. He was never the best theologian....but he had a way with words in Christian apologetics....and children's Christian fantasy books....The Chronicles Of Narnia....and there had been other books and films on the life of C. S. Lewis.....a life that ended on the same day that President John Kennedy was assassinated....and the same day that Brave New World author Aldous Huxley died....November 22, 1963.
Update: My wife and I did see The Most Reluctant Convert this afternoon at a matinee showing....and it was crowded. The film was wonderful....only an hour and a half in length....and I hope that you recommend it to your friends because unless they change the plans there are only about six more days left.
