Jesus said that He sends those who are born again just as the Father sent Him. The primary job of the one who is born again is to deliver the Message of God’s Truth and Reconciliation. Jesus used parable. WE may do the same, through any number of media.

==…a statement by Sherwood Werth: “A painting doesn’t have to have a cross in it to be a Christian painting; I you are a Christian, it will show in your work.”

He didn’t say: If you are religious… The Christian community does not agree on all religious issues. They don’t always live up to their name when it comes to religious beliefs and practices. They do agree on the morals taught by the Bible, and confidence in the Lord Jesus. They agree tht prayer works and we are to be about doing good (even the immitators believe this). ==

How will the scoffer know? By what standard does he tell?

Many years ago, I attended the Billy Graham Writing School. The most important thing I brought home was a statement by Sherwood Werth: “A painting doesn’t have to have a cross in it to be a Christian painting; I you are a Christian, it will show in your work.”

He didn’t say: If you are religious… The Christian community does not agree on all religious issues. They don’t always live up to their name when it comes to religious beliefs and practices. They do agree on the morals taught by the Bible, and confidence in the Lord Jesus. They agree tht prayer works and we are to be about doing good (even the immitators believe this).

Bogart could play a tough worldly guy, yet when the big choices came, his character gave way to doing the right thing. A good example of Christian writing.

Nothing throws a scare into Hollywood faster than “Jesus” and “Christianity.” That’s cuz nothing else works against the Devil. Nothing else threatens the Devil more. That Christian, inspirational films would draw millions messes with the Devil’s flow.

I’m looking into it; but, according to 1 Thessalonians, according to what I hear so far, the anti-Christ doesn’t come before the Rapture. So, if a person is here after his neighbor “mysteriously” disappears, he can be sure he didn’t make the cut.

Therefore, to the knowledgeable Christian, a plot to bring the anti-Christ to Earth “before his time” doesn’t make sense, even biblical sense. As you know, even fiction has to have a goodly amount of reality and sense.

==I was asked to remove all references to Christ in the conversation. IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO CATHOLIC PRIESTS!!! (And I have the coverage notes to prove it.) I was also asked to make the story “less Catholic” (I’m a Pentacostal myself).

Needless to say I questioned this, and I was dropped…==

Of course, through Christ, God wants you to ignore the intitial apparenlty negative consequence and be patient for Him to work to the positive in the life of the Believer. Your patience is a demonstration, even to yourself, of your faith. God already knows, but He wants YOU to know, just as He demonstrated to Abraham, vis a vis Isaac.

==The company shortly went out of business. ==

And, so, He worked in your case. See?

That may be a story, in itself! Or part of one. I wish I had what YOU know so that I could write the danged thing myself. Maybe I’ll try, I dunno.

The story was about a former special forces soldier who became a Catholic Priest, who is asked by the Church to invstigate th death of another Priest and uncovers a plot to bring the anti-Christ to Earth before his time.

On the rewrite I was asked to change a scene in which the hero is talking with another Priest after a setback in the case. I was asked to remove all references to Christ in the conversation. IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO CATHOLIC PRIESTS!!! (And I have the coverage notes to prove it.) I was also asked to make the story “less Catholic” (I’m a Pentacostal myself).

Needless to say I questioned this, and I was dropped. The company shortly went out of business.

The question I have, having all but given up on writing for Hollywood, is whether or not these Faith divisions of the studios justify dusting the script off and resubmitting. Mr. Dallas, I think you’ve answered my question.