How did ANYONE think this was a good idea…
May 4, 2005
Thanks to Mark, I ran across this video that I remember watching in my junior high youth group. In fact, it was kind of like the "initiation" video that you watched when you became a member of the junior high group. "Without Reservation" - watch the 30sec trailer here. I remember wearing a Without Reservation t-shirt in junior high. It said, "I’ve got MY reservation - do you have yours?" and then included a scripture passage, which I’m sure everyone who saw me wearing it, immediately raced home to look it up…
Wow. The question I have to ask myself after watching something so ridiculous as this, is "How in the hell did anyone, at ANY time, ever think that would be a good idea for sharing with people about Jesus?" I just do not understand that. At all. I can’t wait to read McLaren’s book on hell and hear his perspective on the issue.
I am simply baffled with the film [and here is another, Future Tense]…and even more baffled that for some reason I thought it was a pretty great thing back in 1990…
[...and if you want even more, watch the trailer for a film about a "worldly high school guy" who starts "pretending" and dates an unsuspecting Christian girl in The Pretender or watch about a guy who gets his wish to never have been a believer "one of the most encouraging films any Christian could watch" apparently - check out Second Glance or lastly, you could watch Pamela's Prayer, and see the most uplifting film on purity and dating ever put out...wow, these are some real classics...]
Tags: End Times, Revelation, Without Reservation
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
May 4th, 2005 at 3:06 am
Whatever. These videos are what brought me to Christ. How dare you.
May 4th, 2005 at 4:39 am
I can’t believe it! I watched this movie –Without Reservation– in high school during chapel (christian school’s version of forced church). I will never forget it as long as I live. I’ve always wondered what it was called. That movie traumatized me back then. I remember crying for the souls of my classmates because they didn’t act like Christians and I was sure that they were going to hell and that I was not doing anything about it. Now, looking back, it infuriates me that that movie was shown. Thanks so much for bringing up terrible memories! J/K
May 4th, 2005 at 11:41 am
i never watched any of those movies in youth group but i do remember the one that scared the hell out of me. it was a 70’s movie about the rapture called ‘a thief in the night’. freaked me out…
May 4th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
welcome back!
yo, ive seen all those movies you mentioned..good ol second glance, the xn rip off of a classic xmas flick..and the pretender..i mean, who of us hasnt pretended to be a xn to get a girl?
but your right, some really damaging stuff. but its awesome you had a shirt! you should break it out at ec..
mark
May 4th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
maybe it is just me and my juvenile ways, but i thought it was funny that you mentioned that Pamela’s Prayer was “the most uplifting film on purity and dating ever PUT OUT…” get it?
yeah… i should have been held back in jr high…