answer to your questionmontigirlApril 29 2006, 14:32:22 UTC
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I like making films. I like being creative. It's easier to be definative and honest by first answer the reasons other people might have which I don't: I'm not interested in film in order to influence the masses. I don't care one way or the other if what I do changes culture or wins the world for Jesus. I'm not interested in film to provide family-friendly options or g-rated movies to counter-act "the industry" and its decline. I'm not interested in film because of its power to convey a message that might not get through otherwise.
What I'm interested in is producing quality, yes. But I think the main thing, biblically, that draws me to that field (and to other fields as well - like I'm currently a fire fighter in training to be an EMT) is the other people working it. Not just the Christians who need help to keep from being "sucked in." I want the respect of all colleagues, I want to know them, to love them, to pray for them and to serve them through working together with excellence. I want to be a light (but that's a cliche), I want to live for God's glory and I want to "wade in the tide" (as Michael Card sings) of real humanity, the poor who Christ came to save. There will always be lost people whether I know them or not, but I want to be personally involved with individual people, serve them and know them and love them so that I have to cry out to God for them.
It's all about reaching out to equals, because for me, if it's about anything else I'll get smug and detatched, and I'll be "doing good" without really giving a rip. If it's about the viewers, if it's about the patients (for EMT)... I won't connect, it won't be real service.
I like making films. I like being creative. It's easier to be definative and honest by first answer the reasons other people might have which I don't:
I'm not interested in film in order to influence the masses. I don't care one way or the other if what I do changes culture or wins the world for Jesus.
I'm not interested in film to provide family-friendly options or g-rated movies to counter-act "the industry" and its decline.
I'm not interested in film because of its power to convey a message that might not get through otherwise.
What I'm interested in is producing quality, yes. But I think the main thing, biblically, that draws me to that field (and to other fields as well - like I'm currently a fire fighter in training to be an EMT) is the other people working it. Not just the Christians who need help to keep from being "sucked in." I want the respect of all colleagues, I want to know them, to love them, to pray for them and to serve them through working together with excellence. I want to be a light (but that's a cliche), I want to live for God's glory and I want to "wade in the tide" (as Michael Card sings) of real humanity, the poor who Christ came to save. There will always be lost people whether I know them or not, but I want to be personally involved with individual people, serve them and know them and love them so that I have to cry out to God for them.
It's all about reaching out to equals, because for me, if it's about anything else I'll get smug and detatched, and I'll be "doing good" without really giving a rip. If it's about the viewers, if it's about the patients (for EMT)... I won't connect, it won't be real service.
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