Church and the Da Vinci Code

Well… its come time for Rivo to hop on the bandwagon and have a service looking into the Da Vinci Code book/movie.  This is quite unusual actually as our church is not normally a “lets preach pop culture sermons” but I think this could be interesting.  I’m leading for the night so I’ve downloaded the obligatory movie trailers to slot into the service.  To put it into the words of Col M. (the bloke preaching on Sunday PM):

 “The topic for June 11 in the PM service will be 'The Da Vinci  Code - Just who is Jesus?'.  I will outline the huge influence and impact of movies in our culture but that we need to separate what is fact from fiction. This is especially so with the Da Vinci film. I wish to focus on who Christ is - fully human yet fully divine. We can have complete confidence in the Bible's unveiling of the Son of God.”

I tend to think that the “church” has had a bit of an overreaction to this movie and, while this is something to be wary about, we have forgotten that it is a fictional work.  Rather than protesting for outright bans lets use this sort of thing as an opportunity to talk about the Truth, about a work of Non-Fiction – the Bible.