I actually appreciate and am very encouraged by sincere, loving and challenging comments/questions by brothers and sisters in the Lord and always pray about and take into serious consideration any disagreements. It doesn't bother me when people disagree with me (read my other posts where hundreds of people disagree with me, here and at the Christian Post). I've learned from the past, and can more quickly discern when an article begins to garner too many ill-mannered commenters rather than edifying commenters. I closed comments on this article early because I'm responsible to God for all the the content found on this site, including the comments. But I hope and pray that their next film will return to more doctrinally sound portrayals of what it looks like to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ -the light and salt of the earth.Īs you read the reviews from Justin Peters and Seth Dunn, please keep in mind something Charles Spurgeon once said, "Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between right and wrong rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right." And War Room is dangerous, because it's almost right.
I'm disappointed and saddened that this latest film from the Kendrick Brothers succumbed to the seeker-friendly, happy-clappy, false Christianity. A truly biblically submissive wife understands the admonition given to ungodly husbands in 1 Peter 3:7 and out of her love for Christ and her husband, she prays for him and submits to him for His good and not for his harm-for God to grant him the same mercy she's received in Christ. Rather, a godly wife readily admits she is a sinner and is grateful for the mercy she's received from the Lord, therefore delights to submit to her husband from her overflowing love for Christ, and not so that her husband would get "punched" by God (which denigrates our Father's holy and righteous character). This line completely opposes the humble, loving and biblically submissive heart-disposition God delights in Proverbs 31:11-12. Sisters, while this may feed our flesh, it certainly does not feed our spirits with pure spiritual milk. I also take serious issue with the one little line by Beth Moore's character has, " Sometimes submission to your husband looks like ducking so the Lord’s punch hits him instead". While I agree with the premise of this movie: that we need to pray more, I disagree with the unbiblical manner in which War Room teaches and promotes prayer-as our personal power source to get something from God (to fix our lives) rather than what Christ told us prayer is for-the gift of God to know and submit to His will rather than our own.
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