I totally agree, reaching out to the lost and needy is a prerequiste to evangelism.  The problem is that christians are bringing the gospel of the world to preach with, and not the Gospel of Christ.  The Gospel of Christ changes how one views themselves in the presence of a Holy Infinite God.  The gospel of the world teaches that Jesus is our next door neighbor, a Friend who accepts us as we are so we can all just get along.  Contending for the faith has been put on a back shelf somewhere in favor of ecumenicism.

it's not about disagreeing, it's about the wearing of the world's theology against God's Word.

Jude 1:3  Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  16  For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

James 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

the movie denies the foundational Gospel truth of God's Word - this is my objection.  I get the feeling these days that christians view studying the Bible as a hobby - that "truth" can be found through hollywood, books, articles, tv, philosophers, etc. and that God needs to be "experienced".  A movie that has "good christian values" or "good morals" and is therefore considered "clean", only dumbs down the Gospel and perverts it, and is helping pave the way for the emergent church to infiltrate christianity.

one thing I have observed the last few years is that many christians are choosing sources other than the Bible to find "truth".  unfortunately, these jaunts into the jungle hide nasty little snakes and vipers just waiting to bite them on the legs.

would you care to elaborate?

thanx 

so you think it's ok for the Gospel to be misrepresented for the sake of "clean movies"?

I am curious why this movie is perceived as being so "christian".  Faith in God does not mean you instantly get a better life.  It's ATM theology, in my opinion 

It is kind of dreamlike, not very clear but a defnitive message. I must lead my blind sheep to the clear waters.

What can that possibly meen? I keep on getting it for the past week now?

First, I would question that it is from God simply because it is not scriptural.  Jesus' sheep are not blind and they drink from Him Who is the Living Water.

shalom 

thanx for the welcome 

I totally agree - we need to be Jesus' hands and feet - but we are also called to warn others of deception.  It's not just the world that is "feeling" the evil intent of the enemy. The church at large is being seduced because of its lethargic and apathetic pew sitting doing nothing sucking in poisonous teachings week after week - she is about to go under [not talking about the body, but the organized religion of christianity that so many view as the ultimate safe guard from disaster]

yup, I am tough . . . . .  but I am really nice, too 

I hope this is the right place to put this but I have a question to ask. I am truly hoping it can be answered.

Ok, my great-grandparents were Jewish which, ofcourse, meant that my grandfather was Jewish.
He married an gentile woman and they had two children one which was my mother.
My mother always said she was not Jewish.
But I have recently learned that through Reform Judaism she was.

On the internet I found this website about Reform Judaism that states the following"
"... in 1983 it was decreed that a child of either a Jewish mother or a Jewish father should be regarded as a Jew."

With that statement I could be considered Jewish even though I have never been raised in the Jewish faith.

Can I please get some feedback on this so I can understand more?

what kind of information are you looking for exactly? I am wondering if you think that because you are Jewish that it's connected to the religion of Judaism in some way?  perhaps you are concerned that you have missed out on something?

a little more info from you would be helpful 

I think you might be underestimating the influence of satan as we near the end.  it is obviously an all-out dumping of everything he has been planning for millenniums.  when you add this to the already very long list of signs and wonders and gnosticism, this is just one more "acheivement" to seduce people into darkness.

personally, I think that so far we have seen just a sample of his effect on the world - it's only going to get worse and very quickly - we can see it happening day by day now.  Until Jesus returns to set up His Kingdom, we will continue to experience more dreadful evil - not only violence, but the destruction of the mind with evil,  than the world has never seen before, and it is also drawing more and more away from the faith once given to the saints, because they have no foundation in God's Word.

Hi milchamahel,

Welcome to Christians Unite. I'm glad to see you here.

Much of what John saw and wrote about in Revelations was about things to come and not about what was at that time. So this does not prove the location of the Ark of the Covenant although that could be a very good possibility.

thanx for the welcome 

certainly it is up for one's own interp, but Heaven is timeless.  If John saw it there in 95 AD, I choose to believe his witness.

let's just say that it is a reasonable "assumption".  When Jesus said "It is Finished" - the OC was satisfied and fulfilled.  The Ark of the Covenant was the "residence" of that covenant and was no longer needed.  The drastic events that occurred at the time of Christ's death pointed to the end of the Law and the OC when darkness fell, the earth opened, and the veil of the Temple was torn from top to bottom.  I would say this is a good indicator that the Ark made it's permanent place in Heaven.

The Ark of the Covenant is in Heaven - it has been there at least 2,000 years because John saw it there in Revelation:

Rev 11:19 And the temple of God in Heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple, and lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and a great hail occurred.