{"id":4052,"date":"2008-10-15T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:44:19","slug":"free-download-prince-of-peace-god-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/free-download-prince-of-peace-god-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE download “Prince of Peace – God of War”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shawn Groves<\/a><\/strong> tipped me off to a new movie (and the free download) :: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prince of Peace – God of War.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The movie’s premise sounds “simple” enough ::<\/p>\n

How did the command to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love Your Enemies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d get so complicated? This was the question I had for years both when I was a minister in the church and ever since I left it. It seemed to me the religious right, more a political force than anything else, who embraced policies of violence, killing and destruction, all in the name of a God they claimed to follow seemed to be at odds with the teachings of the founder of their faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m downloading it now and haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. But Groves said he’s disappointed in it – just like he was with Fireproof<\/span>. And I understand where he’s coming from (however in full disclosure I haven’t seen either film yet).<\/p>\n

Oh, my brain ate up all the information, history, scripture. Something deeper in me was even inspired several times to be more like Christ. But most of the time I just sat there wishing: I wish this movie wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t head after head talking about theology and history. I wish just one of these bright guys talking right now would let this camera man follow him home. I wish one of these guys would show me what it looks like in their neighborhood\/office\/church\/Palestine to live justly or non-violently. I wish this movie wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all telling and no showing. Yep, I wished that again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A friend made a similar comment after we watched The Ordinary Radicals<\/a> on Saturday night. He wanted less “telling” and more “showing.” And while I really loved The Ordinary Radicals I could see where he was coming from. He wanted to see how the homeless advocates were actually living out their missions — not just a 2 min. sound bite. He wanted to know how it was working and see it lived out. <\/p>\n

For me however, The Ordinary Radicals sparked ideas (and many at that). After all, perhaps even if I had seen how a homeless advocate lived out her mission in San Fransisco, it’s going to look a lot different in Red Oak, Texas. To me the movie showed that Another World Is Possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But perhaps that’s what’s missing in our faith overall. We’re telling people how to live and giving them the rules to follow — but we’re not living it ourselves. Lots of telling — but not much showing.<\/p>\n

All that to say — there’s a movie out that you might be interested in – for free. Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn Groves tipped me off to a new movie (and the free download) :: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prince of Peace – God of War.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The movie’s premise sounds “simple” enough :: How did the command to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love Your Enemies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d get so complicated? This was the question I had for years both when I was a minister in the … Continue reading FREE download “Prince of Peace – God of War”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,192,5],"tags":[1543,1080,1542,1250,1544,1545],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-free","category-politics","tag-god-of-war","tag-ordinary-radicals","tag-prince-of-peace","tag-shawn-groves","tag-show","tag-tell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-13m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}