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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Over-Zealous Christians??

Tonight, instead of having to go to two of our english classes this week, we had the chance to go to a 90 minute viewing of the documentary film on Hell House. I was actually pretty excited about it, because I thought the idea of portraying what life is really like and how our choices now effect our eternal destination. At the beginning, I didn't really find anything that I disagreed on, but towards the end I started seeing myself becoming angry with the people. There was a scene where a couple of kids were arguing with the pastor about the Hell House. I found myself agreeing with the kids more than I did the pastor. I am not saying that I agreed with them completely, but there were many times where I did. I am not sure if this is a good thing or not. One thing that I did agree on is that people really are turned off because of the stereotypes and labels that are given to non christians. I felt as if I were to be a non christian viewing the Hell House, I would feel convicted, yes, but I would feel more judged than anything. Even if I was a christian, and say that I had done drugs before, the way that it was portrayed would have made me feel as if no matter what I would have done I would be going to hell. There were certain parts in the documentary where I had to remind myself that I am forgiven and that the people being portrayed are not christians. By watching their church, and the production of Hell House, I have come to the conclusion that their approach to what they are doing is overwhelming and now they can be seen as over zealous. I am sure that I am not the first one to put that name to them. The concept is good, but the way they go about it is not intriguing at all.

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