Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

I just finished my journey through the book of Acts and here is the thought that came to mind: someone needs to make this into a movie! In some ways, I think it's tougher recreating fact than creating fiction. But the plot and drama and action is unbelievable. I couldn't help but think about how amazing it is that I'm pastoring a church that is part of the Church that started that way! Wow. Does the Church really know how it got started? Acts is our heritage.

I loved The Passion by Mel Gibson because it captured some of the intensity of what actually happened. I pray for some anointed movie producers who have a passion to retell the stories of Scripture in multi-sensory ways.

One reason I'm so passionate about movies is that I gave my heart to Christ as a five year-old after watching a movie called the Hiding Place. I believe in the power of the screen. The church shouldn't just be condemning ungodly entertainment. We ought to be producing stuff that competes and rivals that entertainment and has a godly impact. I know there are some efforts out there like the Damah film festival. I love the Nooma videos. NCC actually won an Angel Award for The Reel NCC 2003. But I'm thinking on a much larger scale. It's sort of cool, one of our interns this summer is a movie major. He'll spend the summer with us, but hopefully he'll be a Hollywood missionary. We need more of them.