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Why RedeeMing CineMA? • Discernment: Discernment: Discernment: Rejecting trash Discernment:

Why RedeeMing CineMA? • Discernment: Discernment: Discernment: Rejecting trash Discernment: 1 Thessalonians 5:21–22 Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil.

Why RedeeMing CineMA? • Discernment: Discernment: Discernment: Rejecting trash Discernment: • Engagement: Engagement: Engagement: Finding bridges Engagement:

Why RedeeMing CineMA? • Discernment: Discernment: Discernment: Rejecting trash Discernment: • Engagement: Engagement: Engagement: Finding bridges Engagement: Acts 17:23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

Why RedeeMing CineMA? • Discernment: Discernment: Discernment: Rejecting trash Discernment: • Engagement: Engagement: Engagement: Finding bridges Engagement: • Worship: Worship: Polishing gems Worship: Worship:

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MOVIE CLIP 1 Titled “What would a ranger know”

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surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 1. Alarm and apathy at Jesus’ arrival Matthew 2:3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 2. Arrogant hypocrisy at the call to repent

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 2. Arrogant hypocrisy at the call to repent Matthew 3:6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 2. Arrogant hypocrisy at the call to repent Matthew 3:7–8 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.”

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 2. Arrogant hypocrisy at the call to repent Matthew 3:9–10 “And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 3. Disbelief and disgust at Jesus’ outreach

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 3. Disbelief and disgust at Jesus’ outreach Matthew 9:3 At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, “This fellow is blaspheming!”

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 3. Disbelief and disgust at Jesus’ outreach Matthew 9:6 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins….” Then he said to the paralytic, “Get up, take your mat and go home.”

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 3. Disbelief and disgust at Jesus’ outreach Matthew 9:11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 4. Increasing opposition at Jesus’ authority

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 4. Increasing opposition at Jesus’ authority Matthew 21:9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 4. Increasing opposition at Jesus’ authority Matthew 21:15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 4. Increasing opposition at Jesus’ authority Matthew 21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey…”

surrender: fell0wship 0f the ring 4. Increasing opposition at Jesus’ authority Matthew 21:38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’

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MOVIE CLIP 2 Titled “Be at peace son of Gondor”