johnnyO
Recording / Performing Artist
The Passion of Christ...by Mel Gibson, opens this Wedensday the 25, of Febuary.
Many false and negative press releases has been published regarding this powerful movie. Not to mention false statements about Jews beinging Christ killers. Which if you read your bible you learn that is not true.
Read this power witness to the movie...
By Paul Harvey...
Paul Harvey Comments on "The Passion" by Mel Gibson
> > Paul Harvey's words:
> > I really did not know what to expect. I was thrilled to have been
> >invited to a private viewing of Mel Gibson's film "The Passion," but
> I
> >had also read all the cautious articles and spin. I grew up in a
> Jewish
> >town and owe much of my own faith journey to the influence. I have a
> >life long, deeply held aversion to anything that might even
> indirectly
> >encourage any form of anti-Semitic thought, language or actions.
> >
> >
> > I arrived at the private viewing for "The Passion," held in
> >Washington, DC and greeted some familiar faces. The environment was
> >typically Washingtonian, with people greeting you with a smile but
> >seeming to look beyond you, having an agenda beyond the words. The
> film
> >was very briefly introduced, without fanfare, and then the room
> >darkened. From the gripping opening scene in the Garden of
> Gethsemane,
> >to the very human and tender portrayal of the earthly ministry of
> Jesus,
> >through the betrayal, the arrest, the scourging, the way of the
> cross,
> >the encounter with the thieves, the surrender on the Cross, until the
> >final scene in the empty tomb, this was not simply a movie; it was an
> >encounter, unlike anything I have ever experienced.
> >
> >
> > In addition to being a masterpiece of film-making and an artistic
> >triumph, "The Passion" evoked more deep reflection, sorrow and
> emotional
> >reaction within me than anything since my wedding, my ordination or
> the
> >birth of my children. Frankly, I will never be the same. When the
> film
> >concluded, this "invitation only" gathering of "movers and shakers"
> in
> >Washington, DC were shaking indeed, but this time from sobbing. I am
> not
> >sure there was a dry eye in the place. The crowd that had been
> >glad-handing before the film was now eerily silent. No one could
> speak
> >because words were woefully inadequate. We had experienced a kind of
> art
> >that is a rarity in life, the kind that makes heaven touch earth.
> >
> >
> > One scene in the film has now been forever etched in my mind. A
> >brutalized, wounded Jesus was soon to fall again under the weight of
> the
> >cross. His mother had made her way along the Via Della Rosa. As she
> ran
> >to him, she flashed back to a memory of Jesus as a child, falling in
> the
> >dirt road outside of their home. Just as she reached to protect him
> from
> >the fall, she was now reaching to touch his wounded adult face. Jesus
> >looked at her with intensely probing and passionately loving eyes
> (and
> >at all of us through the screen) and said "Behold I make all things
> >new." These are words taken from the last Book of the New Testament,
> the
> >Book of Revelations. Suddenly, the purpose of the pain was so clear
> and
> >the wounds, that earlier in the film had been so difficult to see in
> His
> >face, His back, indeed all over His body, became intensely beautiful.
> >They had been borne voluntarily for love.
> >
> >
> > At the end of the film, after we had all had a chance to recover, a
> >question and answer period ensued. The unanimous praise for the film,
> >from a rather diverse crowd, was as astounding as the compliments
> were
> >effusive. The questions included the one question that seems to
> follow
> >this film, even though it has not yet even been released. "Why is
> this
> >film considered by some to be 'anti-Semitic?" Frankly, having now
> >experienced (you do not "view" this film) "the Passion" it is a
> question
> >that is impossible to answer. A law professor whom I admire sat in
> front
> >of me.
Part one of two...read on...
Pastor jo
Many false and negative press releases has been published regarding this powerful movie. Not to mention false statements about Jews beinging Christ killers. Which if you read your bible you learn that is not true.
Read this power witness to the movie...
By Paul Harvey...
Paul Harvey Comments on "The Passion" by Mel Gibson
> > Paul Harvey's words:
> > I really did not know what to expect. I was thrilled to have been
> >invited to a private viewing of Mel Gibson's film "The Passion," but
> I
> >had also read all the cautious articles and spin. I grew up in a
> Jewish
> >town and owe much of my own faith journey to the influence. I have a
> >life long, deeply held aversion to anything that might even
> indirectly
> >encourage any form of anti-Semitic thought, language or actions.
> >
> >
> > I arrived at the private viewing for "The Passion," held in
> >Washington, DC and greeted some familiar faces. The environment was
> >typically Washingtonian, with people greeting you with a smile but
> >seeming to look beyond you, having an agenda beyond the words. The
> film
> >was very briefly introduced, without fanfare, and then the room
> >darkened. From the gripping opening scene in the Garden of
> Gethsemane,
> >to the very human and tender portrayal of the earthly ministry of
> Jesus,
> >through the betrayal, the arrest, the scourging, the way of the
> cross,
> >the encounter with the thieves, the surrender on the Cross, until the
> >final scene in the empty tomb, this was not simply a movie; it was an
> >encounter, unlike anything I have ever experienced.
> >
> >
> > In addition to being a masterpiece of film-making and an artistic
> >triumph, "The Passion" evoked more deep reflection, sorrow and
> emotional
> >reaction within me than anything since my wedding, my ordination or
> the
> >birth of my children. Frankly, I will never be the same. When the
> film
> >concluded, this "invitation only" gathering of "movers and shakers"
> in
> >Washington, DC were shaking indeed, but this time from sobbing. I am
> not
> >sure there was a dry eye in the place. The crowd that had been
> >glad-handing before the film was now eerily silent. No one could
> speak
> >because words were woefully inadequate. We had experienced a kind of
> art
> >that is a rarity in life, the kind that makes heaven touch earth.
> >
> >
> > One scene in the film has now been forever etched in my mind. A
> >brutalized, wounded Jesus was soon to fall again under the weight of
> the
> >cross. His mother had made her way along the Via Della Rosa. As she
> ran
> >to him, she flashed back to a memory of Jesus as a child, falling in
> the
> >dirt road outside of their home. Just as she reached to protect him
> from
> >the fall, she was now reaching to touch his wounded adult face. Jesus
> >looked at her with intensely probing and passionately loving eyes
> (and
> >at all of us through the screen) and said "Behold I make all things
> >new." These are words taken from the last Book of the New Testament,
> the
> >Book of Revelations. Suddenly, the purpose of the pain was so clear
> and
> >the wounds, that earlier in the film had been so difficult to see in
> His
> >face, His back, indeed all over His body, became intensely beautiful.
> >They had been borne voluntarily for love.
> >
> >
> > At the end of the film, after we had all had a chance to recover, a
> >question and answer period ensued. The unanimous praise for the film,
> >from a rather diverse crowd, was as astounding as the compliments
> were
> >effusive. The questions included the one question that seems to
> follow
> >this film, even though it has not yet even been released. "Why is
> this
> >film considered by some to be 'anti-Semitic?" Frankly, having now
> >experienced (you do not "view" this film) "the Passion" it is a
> question
> >that is impossible to answer. A law professor whom I admire sat in
> front
> >of me.
Part one of two...read on...
Pastor jo
