Preface: The following was posted the morning after the Major League Baseball game between the Yankees and the White Sox at a stadium constructed in a corn field in Iowa....all this of course pointing to the 1989 film Field Of Dreams. I saw the news clip of this....and from a Hollywood perspective.....seeing these players of today walk out of that cornfield....was as 'magical' as Hollywood ever gets....the only problem is that 'magical' is not good. If I remember correctly....from the film trailer that I saw at the time....the voice Kevin Costner heard from somewhere said...."If you build it....He will come." I guess that in the movie he built it....and they came. Pastors....throw away all the church growth books you may have....wipe the church growth seminars from your memory....discard the plans for the new sanctuary....and figure out a way to get more seating in the building that you have now. If you preach Christ....if you are not afraid to call out....Maranatha....Come Lord Jesus....they will come....and it won't be for the music....or the laughter....or the soft seats....or the great parking lot....but keep this in mind....and be prepared for it....lest you become discouraged....'If you preach Christ....some will leave.....even many may leave.' The following was posted after that baseball game was played last August:
It was awe inspiring....only in America as the saying goes....but so sad....and a delusion of immense proportions. I have been a cinephile....a lover of movies....for most of my life. I was something of a latchkey child....and movies was what I resorted to for reality....and I think that I paid dearly for it in my youth and into my thirties.
If you preach the gospel....if you preach Jesus Christ in all His glory....and His righteous judgment....and His coming again....they will come. This a play on words of course on the film Field Of Dreams. By 1989 when Kevin Costner's film came out....my life had changed. I still loved film....carefully chosen film....with Chariots Of Fire to this day my favorite.
I have yet to see Field Of Dreams....or The Natural....because I stayed away from those offerings....(an apt word I think....offerings)....where I had a nagging suspicion that there was something behind the film that....unbeknownst to those involved in it....was meant to lead people away from the God of creation. As far as I know....our son has never seen the film even though he loved baseball....for I never considered bringing it into the home. Am I wrong on this suspicion? I can't say for sure....but I know that our son loves the Lord....and chose a wife that loves the Lord. That's enough for me.
The glory has departed in America....'Ichabod'....the word that God's Word uses....but the glory of America....was present for a few hours last night in that Iowa cornfield....only the two 'glories' are separate.....wherein one is of God's hand on this nation that began with pilgrims coming to America in hope of it becoming a....'shining city on a hill'.....the other a glory of its own making....and a glorying in itself....of which last night was a fading recollection.
Oh....we had our moments.....our great film moments....and momentous sports moments....The Miracle On Ice...and we had Reagan's win.....and Obama's win....(for the other side).....and of course Trump's great win....all this mess of pottage that we exchanged the glory of God for....and look at our country now.....we can't even think anymore. Only one thing stand's firm....and that is God's Word....which has been telling us for quite some time now....to get our individual house's in order.....for He is coming.
