Fireproof: Support Christian Movies

Starring Kirk Cameron, Fireproof was produced by Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. Sherwood Church makes Christian movies in order to bring Jesus to the world; making movies is their ministry. Their most known movie, Facing the Giants, raked in about 10 million dollars at the box office two years ago when it first opened. Fireproof is their third and newest movie. Starting with a $500,000 budget and a volunteer cast, the movie is about a firefighter named Caleb, played by Cameron, whose mantra is "Never leave your partner behind." Though Caleb never leaves his partner behind at work, he plans to do just that with his wife and divorce her. As the couple prepares to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's father challenges his son to commit to a 40-day experiment: "The Love Dare." Doubtful that it would work, Caleb agrees to the idea more for his father's sake. When he finds out that "the Love Dare" has religious ties, his interest becomes even more dampened. While trying to stay true to his promise, Caleb becomes frustrated time and again when his wife continues to reject his efforts to love her. He finally asks his father, "How am I supposed to show love to somebody who constantly rejects me?" His father explains to him that this is the love that Christ shows us. Although Christ gave His life for us, we continue to reject him, looking to the world to fill our God-shaped hole. With this realization of what love means, Caleb makes a life-changing commitment to love God and his wife.

Though the movie begins with amateurish acting and seems a little hokey, it does get better. All around it is a great Christian movie. It has a few scenes that will leave you laughing hysterically, “Tomato Juice!!!”, and it brings to light modern issues of today, such as internet pornography. As Christians, we all need to go and support this movie and Sherwood Baptist Church so that they continue to make God-centered movies, in a world that is anything but God-centered.

With divorce rates so high, this movie can do nothing but help save American marriages by showing that with God, anything is possible, including fixing a marriage that may seem, through our flawed, human eyes, to be already lost. As a matter of fact, it has saved marriages. If you go to Fireproof’s website, you can read story after story about how marriages have been saved after watching this movie: http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/stories/

Even if you are a teenager, you need to see this movie. It will show you that marriages aren’t as easy as Hollywood makes us think they are. The fact is, and you can ask any married person, that being married isn’t easy. As a matter of fact, marriage is probably more hard than it will ever be easy, but that does not mean we should just give up on marriage all together. It can be a beautiful thing when both people die to their own desires and live for the other person, basing their marriage on God.

I dare you to go and see this movie.
When you do, leave a comment and let me know what you think.