Everyone's talking about the DaVinci Code. Seems to be a big hype in the Church.
And rightfully so.
A fiction book is being used by the media and anti-Christians to challenge 2000 years of proven Christian history.
Sorta grates on my nerves. If one man's fictional account can make us challenge recorded history, then we are all at risk.
History is not science. It cannot be observed over time. It can only be recounted by those who are eye witnesses or have heard from eye witnesses.
But we live is such an instant gratification, such a short-sighted society, we willingly challenge anything we don't see, feel or understand.
But the historians of Jesus day write that He was, He is and He is to come.
Take moments like these to bone up on your church history. Get the facts. There are plenty of them.
Do you know there's more proof of scriptural accuracy and the life of Christ than of Ceasar Augustus? Don't see anyone challenging his "supreme" rights and existance.
More consistant proof of Jesus than of Mohammad, but you don't see anyone challenging Mohammad.
So, let's not get offended and riled up that our Lord's name is being drug through the mud. He told us it would happen in Matthew 10. We're going to preach, and folks aren't going to like it.
We are to love and preach truth no matter what. If we don't, who will?
First, let's be a praying people, asking God for favor and strategy, then let's go out in love and do the things He's called us to do.
It's hard to have our faith challenged. Believe me, I'm occassionally aflame with social in justice.
Yet, I can do more by talking to God about men, than talking (or in some cases yelling and debating) to men about God. We speak truth in love, and if they don't hear, we go to the Father.
Let's pray God turns the DaVinci Code around and use it for His glory.
Grace and peace.
Rachel Hauck is a friend of the Bridegroom who lives in central Florida. She graduated from Ohio State University in nineteen-eighty-blah-blah and is married to hunky Tony. Look for Rachel's Steeple Hill Cafe release GEORGIA ON HER MIND in August 2006, and WestBow Press release, LOST IN NASHVEGAS, October 2006. Check out her romance books and read her blog at www.rachelhauck.com
During one of the night owl sessions at a recent writer's conference this year, a speaker suggested that instead of just staying home and pouting about DaVinci or worse, paying to see it, that we should all go see a competing, family movie called Over the Hedge on May 19th when both films debut. Wouldn't it be cool if a family film had a better opening than Davinci?
Posted by: julie carobini | May 01, 2006 at 03:34 PM
We just did a class at our church on how to start a conversation about the DaVinci Code and show them the mistakes.
Posted by: Ane Mulligan | May 01, 2006 at 05:07 PM