This movie is truly inspiring and beautiful. I have been a Christian since I was ten years old and lost my way for many years after coming to terms with my being gay at age 16 - The preacher spoke against :LGBTQ people and I left the church I grew up in that same day.
I went through drug addiction, abuse, bullying, mental illness, and so much more than what a review should say about the person writing it. But God pursued me even after I turned away from Him. In this movie a young girl who loses her brothers and is filled with sadness, devastation, and hopelessness begins to show signs of her inner conflicts and pain to her high school teacher.
The teacher (who happens to be a Christian) confronts the girl in true concern towards what she is going through. (God how I wish someone showed concern towards the bullying and hardships I went through other than the guidance councilors). This teacher also takes care of her disables father.
She lets the girl know that if she needs anyone to talk to she is always there. (How caring, how kind....so many people are not like that today). The girl missing her brother, her parents emotionless towards his death and towards her mourning.....turns to the teacher the next day.)
While discussing her sorrow with her teacher, the teacher asks her a simple question "Did your brother ever believe in something more?" She replies "I don't know? The teacher asks again "Do you?" A challenging question I would say for someone who was never exposed to a Christian upbringing (like myself). Long story short, the teacher mentions faith in a round about way, faith in Jesus and truly an after life, heaven. The following day in class, the teacher is discussing a topic with the class about non violence. Long story short the same student brings up a question relating the topic to Jesus. Rather than say "I can't answer that because it is a religious reference" she answers the girl's question in agreement to the Bible and a scripture that attests that the girl's question to the teacher about Jesus was correct. Religious or not, the bible holds and teaches all of the same principles any parent would teach their child in retrospect to morals, forgiveness, and how to deal with many negative events in the lives of every person alive today.
Being persecuted by for this by the school, a war rises. And people begin to become angry at the teacher and wish to use her as an example to make religion or talks of Jesus at school ridiculous. Long story short....This becomes a full blown court room movie - which gets truly suspenseful and mind boggling for those who are not acquainted with a faith based way of life or a personal understanding of faith and the proof of God;s existence only revealed through it.
This movie inspired me in so many ways.....for one when selecting the jury members the accusing council based their choices by appearance and signs of faith or a lack of as did the defense - However some people who were presumed to be non christian by appearance proved the prosecution wrong - You can't judge a book by its cover is one thing I could find as a message in itself. Secondly, the teacher could easily had apologized and let these people dominate her and get away with hurting her reputation and using the situation as an excuse to bash all people who believed in Jesus.
Had we LGBTQ people of the world did not protest against prop 8 and for equality we would have been hushed and no one would have won rights to get married as lgbtq today.
Though it was more so Christians who opposed us and put us down - Many of us never associated this to be an act from God himself. I love Jesus Christ and I am gay......We need to stop bashing Jesus and God for the fault of people who use his name in a way to portray him falsely.
This movie inspired so much more and for anyone who needs inspiration and guidance in a hard time and this movie looks like a good one to watch - ignore the anti Christians because they've just been hurt by Christians so much they bash all Godly movies with the exception of the more popular ones.
How can I be gay and a Christian? Ask God because he revealed himself to me in pursuit of me after I left him, fell into darkness, and became mentally insane for years.
I really don't like debating my personal observations/theories/or spiritual intuitions against reviewers directly - but the truth is that most of these reviews seem to be written by people who hate Christians and or Christianity - Basically people who would match some of the characters in this movie....but I really think it is unfair for any person who isn't a Christian/or pro Jesus' review of this movie to be taken seriously by anyone with a faith in God who is seeking a movie for inspiration or a possible answer to something they are going through,
I went through drug addiction, abuse, bullying, mental illness, and so much more than what a review should say about the person writing it. But God pursued me even after I turned away from Him. In this movie a young girl who loses her brothers and is filled with sadness, devastation, and hopelessness begins to show signs of her inner conflicts and pain to her high school teacher.
The teacher (who happens to be a Christian) confronts the girl in true concern towards what she is going through. (God how I wish someone showed concern towards the bullying and hardships I went through other than the guidance councilors). This teacher also takes care of her disables father.
She lets the girl know that if she needs anyone to talk to she is always there. (How caring, how kind....so many people are not like that today). The girl missing her brother, her parents emotionless towards his death and towards her mourning.....turns to the teacher the next day.)
While discussing her sorrow with her teacher, the teacher asks her a simple question "Did your brother ever believe in something more?" She replies "I don't know? The teacher asks again "Do you?" A challenging question I would say for someone who was never exposed to a Christian upbringing (like myself). Long story short, the teacher mentions faith in a round about way, faith in Jesus and truly an after life, heaven. The following day in class, the teacher is discussing a topic with the class about non violence. Long story short the same student brings up a question relating the topic to Jesus. Rather than say "I can't answer that because it is a religious reference" she answers the girl's question in agreement to the Bible and a scripture that attests that the girl's question to the teacher about Jesus was correct. Religious or not, the bible holds and teaches all of the same principles any parent would teach their child in retrospect to morals, forgiveness, and how to deal with many negative events in the lives of every person alive today.
Being persecuted by for this by the school, a war rises. And people begin to become angry at the teacher and wish to use her as an example to make religion or talks of Jesus at school ridiculous. Long story short....This becomes a full blown court room movie - which gets truly suspenseful and mind boggling for those who are not acquainted with a faith based way of life or a personal understanding of faith and the proof of God;s existence only revealed through it.
This movie inspired me in so many ways.....for one when selecting the jury members the accusing council based their choices by appearance and signs of faith or a lack of as did the defense - However some people who were presumed to be non christian by appearance proved the prosecution wrong - You can't judge a book by its cover is one thing I could find as a message in itself. Secondly, the teacher could easily had apologized and let these people dominate her and get away with hurting her reputation and using the situation as an excuse to bash all people who believed in Jesus.
Had we LGBTQ people of the world did not protest against prop 8 and for equality we would have been hushed and no one would have won rights to get married as lgbtq today.
Though it was more so Christians who opposed us and put us down - Many of us never associated this to be an act from God himself. I love Jesus Christ and I am gay......We need to stop bashing Jesus and God for the fault of people who use his name in a way to portray him falsely.
This movie inspired so much more and for anyone who needs inspiration and guidance in a hard time and this movie looks like a good one to watch - ignore the anti Christians because they've just been hurt by Christians so much they bash all Godly movies with the exception of the more popular ones.
How can I be gay and a Christian? Ask God because he revealed himself to me in pursuit of me after I left him, fell into darkness, and became mentally insane for years.
I really don't like debating my personal observations/theories/or spiritual intuitions against reviewers directly - but the truth is that most of these reviews seem to be written by people who hate Christians and or Christianity - Basically people who would match some of the characters in this movie....but I really think it is unfair for any person who isn't a Christian/or pro Jesus' review of this movie to be taken seriously by anyone with a faith in God who is seeking a movie for inspiration or a possible answer to something they are going through,