As a writer, I usually can't start
writing anything until I have a picture of what or who, I need to write about.
In fact I couldn’t start writing this until I had at least a picture of what I
wanted. Pictures are important to us, not just for the media, but as a way of
life. When we’re little, we get those coloring book bibles that we get to draw in
the everything that is okay for children from the bible (Oddly counting Jesus
on the Cross but hey, I won’t judge the people who thought it would be a good
idea).
Christians can be either Gaston or Belle, we either use our imaginations or we don't.
When we grow older, those bible
stories lose their pictures and change to words and maybe a pictures of what
the country looks like and the story just becomes at times to us just a book and
not really a story. We go out into the world doing a good job just TELLING the stories of the bible but
when it comes to bringing one of those stories to life in film…let’s just say
most of Christian films won’t be winning any Oscars anytime soon.
We put too much into telling the
story then we do showing the story or if we do show it, it’s like in the Dora Explore
kind of way, with her asking where the big red mountain is and we yelling out
the answer hoping to be the one that helps her find it, most Christians in media, are Dora asking
everyone the same questions that we already know the answer to, but we want them
to feel like they know it.
Don't be Dora Christians. Don't tell the same stories over and over again
I think as Christians in the media we shouldn’t stop
telling Bible stories, but we should start telling them in new ways, like the Story
about the Giant and his Garden. Because the best soldiers aren’t the ones that
make their selves known the second they walk onto the battle field, the best
ones are the ones that come up on you, when you don’t see it coming.
Be the people the world didn't see coming
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