raodonald

I have to say, I really applaud the effort to promote this text, which is summarily suppressed in modern theology. I appreciate the simplicity used, not trying to over-reach by replicating the actual scope of action as it probably happened. It's enough to just re-state the events and provide the essential document in its historical setting. Although the text is silent on the presence of the Pharisee Saul, we know that he is present and that he is a witness to the birth and growth of the Church. This lends all the more to his dramatic change from persecutor to promoter. His testimony before King Agrippa was transfixing for me as a believer. It's a just movie, but it does have a positive effect, unlike that ridiculous, lying production titled "Noah." "Acts" demonstrates that faith in Christ didn't occur in a bottle, that men and women of that era testified to the power of God to change their lives and many paid for their testimony at the hands of the enemies of this message.

No Hollywood fakery, no inflated characterizations here. More of a voyeuristic presentation than an in-depth drama. You are free to draw your own conclusions about who these ordinary people are and why they are there on this stark piece of land. But, perhaps you would like someone to explain it all to you, to help you think it through, instead, because this is life in the raw and there's nowhere to hide those personal weaknesses, those very real fears and sense of loss. You probably won't enjoy this at all.