I don’t watch many movies.
As a matter of fact, it recently dawned on me that as much as I travel, I may watch more movies on flights over oceans than anywhere else. On a recent trip to Taiwan, I watched La La Land, a musical film brimming with the Hollywood charm of long ago. It is no superlative to say that it’s one of the best movies I have ever seen. So good, in fact, that I watched it again on the way home.
It’s a classic love story, with great characters and acting, witty writing, colorful wardrobe, beautiful cinematography, and fun homages to film making of the past. The characters are believable and not overacted. It’s wistful and romantic, passionate and joyful.
As I have been trying to plan how to answer the question, “Why believe in Christianity?”, I wanted to capture and convey the feeling I had after watching that movie – the joy that compels you to watch it again and again. The joy you get when you see something or hear something or taste something and you can’t wait to share it with others. The joy you feel when you find someone or something you love.
The story of Christianity is simply put the greatest love story ever told.
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“I do.”
Those two words provoke a universal image – a man and a woman, together, surrounded by their closest friends and family, pledging to love honor one another, through good times and bad, in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall live.
What follows next is the culmination of a litany of sacrificial obligations central to marriage, and represents one of the biggest leaps of faith many of us will experience in our lifetime.
“I do.”
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Look around.
We live in an intricately interconnected and complementary world, with remarkable complexity and startling beauty. Consider the small – the simplicity of a cell or an atom, and how they form the building blocks for all that we see and touch. Think about how cells form seeds, and how such a small package can unfurl into something as strong and majestic as a tree, or as delicate as a flower.
Think about the complexity of a human organ, like the eye, and how many of these improbably complicated organs are packaged together into the human person, performing like a symphony to support and sustain every human life.
Now consider the probability of this all happening by chance. Science has shown the odds are overwhelmingly against it – in fact, it is nearly impossible. It would be like thinking that the Mona Lisa was created by paint randomly falling onto a canvas, after the paint spontaneously burst into being.
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You have probably watched the movie, “Forrest Gump,” and can recall the scene when his friend Jenny shouts, "Run, Forrest, run," inspiring what would become an epic three year odyssey running across the country.
We have all likely encountered something similar to Jenny’s prompting. A seemingly innocuous comment strikes us as a clarion call, which shakes us from the din of our normal routine and we pivot in an entirely new direction.
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