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Facing Intellectual Giants: DIVIDED ON DVD

Sunday 10 July 2011

DIVIDED ON DVD

www.dividedthemovie.com

There is a crisis. Christian youth are rapidly leaving evangelical churches for the world. This well-recognized disaster has been the topic of significant discussion in recent years for both church leaders and modern new media. DIVIDED follows young Christian filmmaker Philip Leclerc on a revealing journey as he seeks answers to what has led his generation away from the church. Traveling across the country conducting research and interviewing church kids, youth ministry experts, evangelists, statisticians, social commentators, and pastors, Philip discovers the shockingly sinister roots of modern, age-segregated church programs, and the equally shocking evidence that the pattern in the Bible for training future generations is at odds with modern church practices. He also discovers a growing number of churches that are abandoning age-segregated Sunday school and youth ministry to embrace the discipleship model that God prescribes in His Word.
“It’s time to get past the denial phase.” — kevin swanson
“The church has set aside the sufficiency of Scripture for the discipleship of the next generation.” — scott brown

6 comments:

  1. This movie is a hot challenge on several fronts. First, it exposes the failure of parents to raise up their children for Christ. Next, it exposes the reality of the fact that many parents are not in obedient relationship with the Lord. For, how can you say you love the Lord and in the very fundamental reason for which He gave you children, you fail him? Then, it reveals that there are there are still those who would rather serve the Lord than mammon. Think of the cost of producing this movie. Some others would have copyrighted it to maximize their profit from it. Brother Scot and Son, thank you for a wonderful work. Take it from the Lord, you will not lose your reward.

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  2. The movie places responsibility for discipling kids with the parents especially the father. What about children from single parent homes? Isn't it enough burden already for single moms to have to provide the physical and emotional needs of their children all alone? I think youth pastors are doing a good job of bridging the gap for this group of parents and must therefore be encouraged.

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  3. I think we must not judge this movie by the circumstances each of us are experiencing. Rather, let us see what the real issue is and that is, what does God's word say about what we are doing? Can our service to the Lord be still acceptable to him if we use methods he has not approved? I think that we can't continue to do our own things in the name of serving the Lord while ignoring his clearly stipulated approach. We can only get God's approval when we serve God God's way. Otherwise, we risk hearing him say the D word, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!"

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  4. I think the challenge the movie throws at all of us, parents, parents-to-be and aspiring parents is the need for an urgent reflection and rethinking of what we understand to be God's purpose for us as parents. We need to ask ourselves hard questions to see if we truly understand what God intended to achieve through us by giving us the privilege to become parents. When we have understood that, we still need to ask ourselves the other hard questions about whether or not we are fulfilling God's expectations of us or if we have even figured out how to make that our priorities. Until we do that, we may start trading fires instead of feel the heart of God and respond as dear children should.

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  5. @Lerato. Here's a response by Paul, which I found in the comments' section of Divided-the movie website and which I thought addresses the concern raised by Lerato: Agreed. I don't think the documentary is saying don't reach out or do evangelism to young people who don't come from Christian homes. It is saying, of those families that claim to be Christian families, the parents should be the primary means by which the children are dsciplied in Christ. In my view, the best way to reach out to non-Christian teens is through Christians teens themselves and their families. Families should invite non-Christian families and non-Christian kids/teens into their home, into their lives, so they can see what it means to follow Christ day-by-day. Often, youth groups tern into...
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  6. @Lerato. Here's a response by Paul, in the comments' section of Divided-the movie website and which I thought addresses the concern raised by Lerato: I don't think the documentary is saying don't reach out or do evangelism to young people who don't come from Christian homes. It is saying, of those families that claim to be Christian families, the parents should be the primary means by which the children are dsciplied in Christ. In my view, the best way to reach out to non-Christian teens is through Christians teens themselves and their families. Families should invite non-Christian families and non-Christian kids/teens into their home, into their lives, so they can see what it means to follow Christ day-by-day. Often, youth groups turn into an artificial environmental and when the baby Christian leaves that environmental, they don't know how to live out their faith.

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