Leave a Legacy of Love – God’s Loveby Audra Jennings Tuesday, September 07, 2010
I may be an old guy, but I can’t ignore the fact that young people don’t read like my generation did. However, they DO love to watch movies and videos. The other day I saw my granddaughter staring at some small electronic something and I asked her what she was doing. “Watching a movie, Grandpa.” I couldn’t believe my ears. She had an entire movie in the palm of her hand! Reaching young people like my granddaughter—not acquiring box office numbers—is the film’s vision. I want to one day see her watching Jesus on her strange device. And to know that I had a part in making that happen—nothing could make Grandpa happier. This is also the sentiment of so many parents and grandparents who have caught the vision of Jesus... No Greater Love and embraced it as their own. Glennda from Denver, CO writes, “I support Jesus...No Greater Love because I want to see it available to reach my grandchildren. This movie will be the perfect tool to help my young grandsons know the real Jesus and not some religious or politically correct representation. It will also be a movie they can share with their friends who don’t know anything about the Lord. What a cool way for them to answer their friends’ questions about why they go to church and don’t drink, etc. They can say, ‘Here, take a look at this movie and see for yourselves!’” Kay Arthur, founder of Precept Ministries and internationally respected Bible scholar, said about Jesus... No Greater Love, “If you want to make an investment in the kingdom of God... I truly believe with all my being you couldn’t make a better investment.” For the first time, not only in Jesus movie history but in film history in general, the public is being invited to become the film’s producer, both through financial funding and creative input. I think of Exodus 35 when God gave Moses instruction to build the tabernacle. He told him to go to the people, and such a large assembly followed they actually had too much! And this is the plan I’ve chosen to follow—to invite the body of Christ, everyday believers, to assemble as one and literally create a state-of-the-art Jesus movie that will touch millions across this nation and the globe for generations. And I am so thankful to see the Lord doing just that through the open, passionate hearts of so many of his children. “I have been following Jesus... No Greater Love since its inception and have been giving $100 each month since then,” writes Judy from New Palestine, IN. “I’m in my eighties, and I will continue to support each month, and, God willing, one day I will sit with my grandchildren in a theater and see it fulfilled. They will see my name as a producer. How precious is that? ‘Grandma produced a movie and a lot of lives were changed because of that.’ Right now they won’t go to church, but they will go see a movie—and this movie will bring them the Gospel. So maybe even they will be among those many lives changed!” In this world where the information onslaught makes what happened just an hour ago old news and where so much Christian truth goes forth watered down and influenced by cultural mores, the need for God’s Word unaltered—the need for the pure Gospel and pure Jesus—couldn’t be greater. This is the reason so many of the Boomer Generation and beyond are circling their wagons around Jesus... No Greater Love. The vision is to create a dramatic film adaptation of The Book of John, literally word for word and verse by verse, while at the same time employing the most cutting-edge film technologies in order to bring the Jesus story into a level of cinematic sophistication that today’s film-goers, especially young people, are accustomed to. And more than anything, my goal is to never sacrifice the heart behind the Gospel for special effects. At the end of the day, the film has to be about Jesus, about his heart and his depth of love. As the script has been constructed, every scene will whisper, “I [Jesus] love you. ‘I Am’ your salvation, ‘I Am’ your hope. Come to me!” Lisa from Pretoria, South Africa writes, “I gave my life to Jesus when Bruce Marchiano came to my high school to show us his first Jesus film, The Gospel of Matthew. That was a long time ago, and now I’m a mother with two children of my own. I remember thinking that day, ‘So this is what Jesus is really like? Wow, I never knew he loved me so much—I never knew he was so real.’ And the funny thing is, I’d been going to church all my life. We sang songs, we did good things and heard good messages, but to see the Lord ‘live’ and smiling and crying and loving people like that... I couldn’t resist him. I want that same thing for my kids, and from deeply personal experience, I KNOW Bruce will deliver.” And so, parents and grandparents are catching this cross-denominational, outreach film vision alongside young people and people from many nations across the globe, all uniquely unifying as one producer to bring Jesus... No Greater Love to the screen. The body of Christ is literally coming together across all divisional lines—socio-economic, cultural, denominational, age and language—all in the name of Jesus. Every time I think I just can’t carry on for one more day, something comes across my desk—a note, an email—saying “We’re behind you!” “Here’s my ten dollars. Thanks for letting me participate!” “Your film Matthew changed my life, and I know this one will change my children’s.” Sometimes it’s written by a hand that is shaky with age, and I can’t tell you what that means to me. I think of Barbara in Florida whose writing has become so difficult to read. And yet she sends something every month and a little note of encouragement. I can’t wait to hand each and every one of these precious people their own DVD. I can’t wait to sit in the back row of their little churches all across America and the world and watch them watch what they made happen. I simply can’t wait! Bruce Marchiano This article can be used with permission with credit given to Bruce Marchiano, New Jesus Movie/Marchiano Ministries 2010 For more information, visit www.NewJesusMovie.com. For interviews, contact Diane Morrow dmorrow@tbbmedia.com. Audra Jennings is Senior Media Specialist at The B & B Media Group. Since 1987, The B & B Media Group, Inc. has used its broadcasting, marketing and advertising experience to provide the specialized and strategic publicity necessary to achieve the public relations goals of each client. The Barnabas Agency, a division of The B & B Media Group, Inc., is a proven provider of exceptional public relations and personal management services for authors, speakers, ministries and organizations.
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