Parables: Using film to teach

This will be a short post.  A week ago I was blessed to talk (chat via IM, really) with a man in Egypt who wants to make films to glorify God.  It reawoke my desire to create films in different countries and use a nation’s culture and stories to teach them the gospel; in other words, relate gospel principles to what they are familiar with, just as Jesus did.  There may not be economic advantages to doing this, but there could be teaching advantages. 

In fact, Christ taught in parables so that those who were ready to understand or learn, could, while others would be blind to the true message and would only hear a story.  Plus, stories are easy to remember.

So perhaps that’s a good way to think of the movies I’ll make: parables.