"Lord Save Us From Your Followers'

Pastor Chris is our guest blogger today!
Last fall I saw a movie that moved me like few have. The films has a unique title, "Lord Save Us From Your Followers" and is beginning to have an impact from coast to coast. It would be classified as a documentary but it is so much more than that. The director, writer and producer Dan Merchant, frustrated by the "culture wars," sets out on a nationwide trek wearing a jump suit covered with political and religious bumper stickers in hopes of having a conversation with anyone who will listen.

I found this film to be challenging, convicting, enlightening but also hopeful. Too often we have allowed our differences to define us rather than our similarities. We have a long history of harming others in the name of religion, something many are still trying to heal from. How do we return to the core of the Christian message? How do we get back to the words of Jesus and use them as the foundation of our faith and actions?

I want to share this movie with you. Over the summer we will have a few showings of this film and take some time afterward to discuss it's impact on you. I hope this film can ignite a conversation in our church and spur us on to actions more inline with the teachings of Jesus. If this is something you would like to be a part of let me know (chermansen@christelca.org) I will reserve your seat and a bag of popcorn.

See you in church,

Chris Hermansen