Peter Rowan, who has been wonderfully helping out during Q&A, posted this article at the CPDC Website
OMF Prayer Request:
"Here in Kuala Lumpur, a number of excellent seminars have been run, tackling the controversies raised by The Da Vinci Code, helping Christians and others sort out fact from fiction, get to grips with Church history and to hear afresh the challenge of Jesus, which is of course much more radical than anything Dan Brown can dream up! Pray for Malaysian Christians to seize the opportunity, when they see someone reading the book or know someone who has gone to see the film, to say, ‘What do you think about Jesus?’ and take the conversation further..."
The DaVinci Code fits nicely into the post-modern worldview where you take bits of all sorts of exotic spiritualities that help you go on your own inner journey to discover spiritual reality from within. All spiritualities are acceptable, except that is, orthodox Christianity which is based on the solid rocks of the Word of God and Jesus Christ. Listen to the words of NT Wright:
“…the challenge of Jesus, in the 21st century as in the first, is that we should look away from ourselves and get on board with the project the one true God launched at creation and re-launched with Jesus himself. The authentic Christian gospel, which is good news about something that has happened as a result of which the world is a different place – this gospel demands that we submit to Jesus as Lord and allow all other allegiances, loves and self-discoveries to be realigned in that light. God’s project, and God’s gospel, are rooted in solid history as opposed to Gnostic fantasy and its modern equivalents. Genuine Christianity is to be expressed in self-giving love and radical holiness, not self-cosseting self-discovery.”
OMF Prayer Request:
"Here in Kuala Lumpur, a number of excellent seminars have been run, tackling the controversies raised by The Da Vinci Code, helping Christians and others sort out fact from fiction, get to grips with Church history and to hear afresh the challenge of Jesus, which is of course much more radical than anything Dan Brown can dream up! Pray for Malaysian Christians to seize the opportunity, when they see someone reading the book or know someone who has gone to see the film, to say, ‘What do you think about Jesus?’ and take the conversation further..."
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