The Movie Son of God
Langerak critiques the evangelical promotion of films like 'Son of God' as an inappropriate way to remember Christ's death, contrasting worldly entertainment with Reformed practices of corporate worship, preaching, and the proper observance of the Lord's Supper. The article defends the Reformed approach to commemorating Christ's passion against what the author considers false expressions of Christian remembrance within evangelical Christianity.
At the time of year called Lent, Reformed believers remember the death of Jesus Christ for their salvation. They do not remember His death legalistically by putting ash on their foreheads or by giving up some favorite pleasure, but by listening to a series of sober sermons that expound the biblical doctrine of the death of Jesus Christ. Nor are the few Sundays before resurrection Sunday and on Good Friday the only times they remember His death, but they remember it whenever the gospel is...
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