It is finished! We celebrate these words during Resurrection Weekend and we heard them again on the final installment of The Bible on the History Channel. I've have generally enjoyed the series, but most of all I have enjoyed the conversation that has grown out of it. There is opportunity here, in this moment, to engage the world with Scripture, we MUST take it! At least one Wal-Mart that I know of actually sold out of the DVDs of the series the first day they were available. We can either use it or run from it, I hope we use it.
Things They Missed:
1. The Resurrection: It would have been nice to see the power of the resurrection take place. We are brought immediately to the empty tomb but I would have liked to see how they would have portrayed the event. This is not a big miss, I think they did okay, but the other issue I had was that (as Pastor Paul mentioned) it was still dark when Mary went to the tomb and it looked like it was about noon or at least late morning in the show.
Join Benson Baptist as we journey through "The Bible" alongside the television miniseries premiering March 3, 2013 on the History Channel.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The Church Unleashed
The Bible series as presented by The History Channel is over... it's now "history". I enjoyed the series very much, enjoyed preaching on it, and enjoyed blogging about it. It's almost sad to see it come to an end.
This particular episode took us through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, then dealt with the planting and expansion of the church in the compact fashion we have grown accustomed to. Again in this episode, we saw some "extra-biblical" materials come in; things you won't find in the bible. But I still think the producers did a fine job in communicating biblical truth through the film.
Of particular note; I appreciated the way the religious authorities were portrayed in selecting and coaching the crowd at Jesus' trial before Pilate and the importance of showing the sacrifice of the Passover lambs while Jesus was being crucified. Questions that arise; did Jesus kiss the cross? Did his mother Mary help him pick it up? These were touching moments but not biblical. The crucifixion itself was handled masterfully, not overly gory but gruesome enough to get us to understand the brutality of the whole thing. Pilate's comment, "he'll be forgotten in a week", was not biblical, but it summed up the political/religious feeling of the moment.
This particular episode took us through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, then dealt with the planting and expansion of the church in the compact fashion we have grown accustomed to. Again in this episode, we saw some "extra-biblical" materials come in; things you won't find in the bible. But I still think the producers did a fine job in communicating biblical truth through the film.
Of particular note; I appreciated the way the religious authorities were portrayed in selecting and coaching the crowd at Jesus' trial before Pilate and the importance of showing the sacrifice of the Passover lambs while Jesus was being crucified. Questions that arise; did Jesus kiss the cross? Did his mother Mary help him pick it up? These were touching moments but not biblical. The crucifixion itself was handled masterfully, not overly gory but gruesome enough to get us to understand the brutality of the whole thing. Pilate's comment, "he'll be forgotten in a week", was not biblical, but it summed up the political/religious feeling of the moment.
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