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Overcomer movie breaks through the old lack-luster, corny Christian films of the past and provides a better taste of quality movie production capturing Christian truths — especially the abiding truth of living in Christ. It is incredibly difficult to produce a movie, let alone a good movie, and more so a Christian movie, and Overcomer movie has done just that. Overcomer movie digs deep into historical Christianity and deep, inspirational truths from the Bible’s New Testament book of Ephesians. To see Ephesians 1 on the “big screen” and captured in the right contextual meaning is incredible.
Overcomer brings the audience into a undeniably real life scenarios involving all various aspects of this broken and sinful world:
Grand-parenting (raising grandchildren without their parents)
Parents
Families
Children
Teenagers/Adolescence/Young adults
Neighborhoods
Orphans (parentless, single parents)
Christian school (administration, teachers, coaches, parents, guardians, students, classes)
Sports (basketball, football, cross country running, coaching)
Small town
Anger
Hate
Confusion
Loneliness
Theft
Selfishness
Division
Disease
Disabilities
Weird people
Funny people
Mean people
Christian people
Life decisions
Life changes
Learning to understand
Learning to forgive
Church
Pastors
Hospital visitation
Hospitality
Bible
Faith in Christ
Child of God
The movie captures an incredible amount of width of issues as well as narrowing on the single, residing, and resounding answer of God and the gospel. Here are a few statements shared at the end of the film:
I was a mistake.
No place in this world.
Unwanted.
I felt unloved.
So many mixed messages from the world around me, I lived in confusion.
My parents did not want me
It doesn’t come from the culture around me …
The Creator gets to define his creation.
I still have good and bad days.
I still have struggles.
The one who loves me and died for me and overcame everything for me … Sin, suffering, and death … I walk with him everyday … I trust him everyday.
Since my identity is found in him, and I know exactly who I am.
If one interprets the movie or Christianity as a self-discovery help with tips and tricks, then they’ve missed God, Christianity, church history, and the Bible. This is turning from ourselves and the world to God — entrusting the entirety of our real life to him.
Mid movie, there’s a scene with the coach talking with the man in the hospital with critical health issues. The one on the hospital bed challenges the “Christian” school coach and his identity in Christ to reveal God is greater and more important than life itself.
The movie ends with 1 John 5:5:
“Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
This is a great movie revealing how we are to be trained to live our identity in Christ, a Christian, in this real world. Every person has a telos-centered heart. The question is, what is your telos? Or, who is your telos? Is it you? This world? Something you miss? Don’t have? Want? Or God himself?
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