September 12, 2005
Christians Salting-Up Hollywood: Finally!!!!
(some of the bros praying at Act One.)
I read an article in Details Magazine about a training program for Christians, called Act One, who are seeking to go into mainstream film and television production. This is a paradigm for being salt and light.
Stressing artistry, excellence, professionalism, and spirituality, Act One prepares students to be "salt and light" in writers rooms, on sets, and in studio and network offices. Our goal is not to produce explicitly "religious" entertainment, but movies and TV programs of unusual quality and depth.
In the article Ralph Winter, who produced X-Men 2, decided to work make sure the portrayal off Christians in the film was accurate he made sure that Nightcrawler "didn't misquote Scripture."
Finally, there's a generation of Jesus followers that truly understands that the mainstream film and TV industry is not something that Christians should just baulk at but seek to salt. What happen to our sense of mission?
Salt, in Matt 5:13 and Luke 14:34-35, does NOT mean preserve or to enhance flavor. The salt Jesus refers to was used as fertilizer. So Jesus followers are the salt for the earth.
Jesus followers go to places that are barren and dead and fertilize it by making it good as God intended. Whatever the area--film, music, TV, sports, the arts, education, law, driving a bus, etc.
Jesus follwers don't withdraw from the earth they salt it. The real question we should be asking high school and college age Jesus followers to think about is this: what do you want to salt when you finish school?
And for the rest of us, what are we salting now?
Posted by anthony at September 12, 2005 11:08 AM | TrackBack