"Sex, Drugs, Rock’n’Roll & Jesus," part three

The title really doesn’t fit this time – I’m not sure if there’s any sex or rock’n’roll, but there’s certainly violence. As I was drafting this blog mini-series, this blog remix popped up on my Newsgator (the program I use to subscribe to blogs). It’s a review of the movie Man on Fire, and why “I had an easier time connecting with God in the movie, ‘Man on Fire’ than I did in ‘The Passion of the Christ,’” as Jon lays it out in the first sentence. Here’s my favorite paragraph from the post, although I know you will all click HERE to read the whole thing.

“I missed it the first ten times I saw the movie. Missed that I’m Pita. I’ve lived most of my life under the stairs in a dark, dirty cage. But unlike Pita, this is the place I deserve. For although she did not ask to be kidnapped or receive this experience as a consequence of her actions, I did. If this were the story of my life, justice would have already been served. The prisoner’s life is the life I deserve. But God is like Creasy. In Isaiah 30:18 it says ‘he rises to show you compassion.’”

There is no more beautiful love story than that of a person who lays aside all power, all authority, all justice, and walks willingly to certain death to redeem their beloved.

I wish I could write another six pages about this story, the story of a man who, in the prime of his life, takes off his robes of power and allows lesser men to sacrifice him.

But you have to read Jon’s blog first.