Rediscovering a Gripping Gospel Through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Well, so far all the reviews have been positive about The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I look forward to hearing form anyone who sees it what they thought about it. Read this article from Agape Press:

(AgapePress) - The Church of the Cinema does at least one thing better than most evangelicals: it remembers how to bring to life a passionate drama. While disputes over doctrine are important, some churches have become so preoccupied with in-house debates that they have forgotten that Christianity begins with a story. Before we can care about the Deity of Christ, we must first come to believe the narrative of His incarnation, life, death, and resurrection. His story is true, and it should grip the soul. But sometimes, in our desire to get to the graduate-level theological detail, we rush over the story -- and our tale of the Gospel has all the allure of a badly-written history text.
C.S. Lewis recognized this tendency within his own denomination, so he crafted a story designed to slip past the "watchful dragons" of church-enforced "sanctimony" and restore the Gospel's innate passion, potency, and sense of adventure. Lewis wanted children (and adults with the eyes to see) to meet Jesus in fiction so that when they encountered Him in fact they would not merely acknowledge Him, but love Him.
The film version of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe sticks to the essentials of the book. It contains plenty of theology, but director Andrew Adamson has knocked the stuffiness out and presents Lewis' ideas so clearly that they can be latched onto with a ferocity lacking in the average Sunday School lesson. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is not some watered-down gospel-lite. It is a fantasy retelling of the Gospel and all of the elements are there -- too many to deal with in a short essay. But some parts are particularly well developed: the slippery slope of sin, the roadblock of unbelief, the Suffering Servant, the power of the Resurrection, and the need for faithfulness. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe reminds us why the Bible calls Christians to be "witnesses."

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