Comments on: Are We Developing Great Theater?

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:46:35 +0000

I agree with Ekstasis. It seems that learned platitudes are a widely applied band-aid.

That way we are never real with God or anyone else; never really discover who we are in that light; never experience the overwhelming understanding that we are loved by our Creator in spite of it and are then are unable to allow that to compel us into grace-filled creativity. True truth and real reality.

Instead we just follow some one’s (maybe wise) rules and safe steps and never work out our own Salvation (in the true sense of the word).

By: Ekstasis

Ekstasis — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:50:31 +0000

Our kids go to a Christian school. A very well known writer of Christian children books visited. He made a very insightful comment along the lines that, when he asks kids from Christian homes to imagine and create a story, they stare back somewhat blankly and ask “what are the rules”, “what should I write about”, etc. It seems that creativity is downplayed, in favor of pumping theological points into their tanks in hope that it will stick. Nothing wrong with learning the “facts” of the faith in and of itself. But I notice the same with Sunday school for the kids. It is all a one-way flow of information.

Victor Hugo, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Doestoevsky, and the other great writers struggled deeply with their spiritual lives. I would say that they were tortured souls in many regards. Maybe we all struggle with the big questions, but mostly we are afraid of admitting such big doubts. The one time I dared speak up I was quickly told to grab a copy of More than a Carpenter. Great book, but it was not the sort of answer or dialogue I was looking for.

By: Jim Roberts

Jim Roberts — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:05:19 +0000

Back to the leadership vacuum. Who besides yourself will suggest something other than the status quo? As long a most of the moral leadership just do shallow counselling, nurturing, damage control messages from pulpits…the pew warmers will just continue with the usual…TV garbage, perverted movies and videos…it’s all headed into the moral cesspool and a major reason is due to the constant war against the moral law as revelaed in the bible. Mainstream Christianity has formed an antinomian ANTI-Paul.
Only a baby step is necessary to accept the ANTI-Christ.
The true sense of words …gospel, grace and salvation are corrupted.

By: Carl E. Creasman, Jr.

Carl E. Creasman, Jr. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:38:16 +0000

Well said George. My brother-in-law actually was one of the conductors of the show in its early days, got close to the Producer and was the 10th Anniversary conductor (you may have seen him on the PBS production of this).

Anyway, he got me great tickets in Tampa way back in 1988 and I remember that first show vividly. It is, as you said, one of the best pictures of the trifecta of possibilities—grace, law, anarchy/flesh/license. I got to go back stage with David, meet some of the cast, and I spoke about that with them. Each actor, many not Christians, were very well aware of the power of the story.

Thanks for sharing this!!