God's Not Dead

Spoiler alert!!!

If you haven't yet seen the movie Titled "God's Not Dead" and wish to, Please stop reading and see it before continuing to read this post.

Tonight our family went to a very crowded mall and theater to see the movie "God's Not Dead".  The movie is about a student enrolling in classes his freshman year in college.  Besides his core classes he picks an elective class of Philosophy 150.  Even though being advised to select the class with another professor he chooses to go ahead with the class any way.

At the opening of this class, the professor requests all the students to write down on a paper 3 words along with their signature.  Those word are God is Dead.  All the students in the class proceed to do so except one Christian student who couldn't.  This student is given the task (since he couldn't sign the paper) to prove exactly the opposite of what they were suppose to write on the paper.

He had 3 classes he needed to prepare and give the lecture to the class in order convince not only the professor but the rest of the class that God was not dead but in fact very much alive.  He does this very well, for the detail on how you will need to see the movie. 

It is actually other parts of the movie I wanted to write about.  There are 3 other characters/situations in the movie that I can personally identify with.  Shortly after the opening of the movie you see a young woman visiting an older woman.  The nurse is bringing the old woman an evening meal of chicken.  The old woman says "I don't remember the last time I had chicken" and devours it happily.  The nurse leans over to the young woman and states she has that for lunch that day and the evening before as well.  We find out the young woman is the old woman's daughter and the old woman has some form of Dementia. 

During the movie you are introduced to a busy reporter who's job is to report on dirt of famous people. positive famous people I may add. She keeps getting and ignoring phone calls from a doctor.  Her boyfriend seems to be as goal and career oriented as she is and both act as though they are on the top of the food chain.  When you finally see her in the Doctor's office she continues to allow interruptions from her cell phone.  The Doctor finally interjects and informs her the test came back positive and she has cancer.  She is convinced she will die.

As to not completely give away the movie I'm not going to tell you who exactly but rather what  for this last one.  All you need to know is the person is a non believer.  The situation is this person is on foot and is hit by a car and rolls up on the hood of the car and then rolls from the car into the street.    By all means see the movie to find out what happens here as well as with the other people.

If you don't know already, my Dad has Alzheimer's (a form of Dementia) and while he is nothing like the woman in the movie, I can identify with having a parent struggle with the disease.   The second person is quite different from me, yet I can Identify with her story in the aspect that I was also diagnosed with cancer.  I can personally understand the fear of death.  I have lived with cancer and many of the fears that go along with it since my diagnosis on May 11, 2012.  By now many of you are saying but what about being hit by a car?  Not many people can identify with someone on foot being hit by a car and rolling up the hood of the car.  Many of you may not know I was on a bike tour with my dad (before he was affected by or diagnosed with Alzheimer's).  During the tour I crossed a road and was hit by a car.  I rolled up the hood of the car, hit the windshield with my head (inside a bike helmet) and twirled in the air for a few times until I landed in the ditch about 20 or more feet from one of my shoes.  Luckily I didn't break anything that day but my pride. 

Through this you can see why this movie was very powerful, especially to me.  I left enough detail out as to not completely give away the movie.  Please go see the movie.  Please take those who don't know God personally as it may start a conversation. 

Without having seen the movie I could assure of these three final words.

God's Not Dead!!!

--Kent