Great points. Tombstone is an awesome movie, albeit with a lot of Hollywood poetic license. Many people are comfortable with Tombstone’s telling of the story, and blissfully ignorant to reality. That’s also true of many people in church. There’s an important lesson here on being curious and having a desire to uncover and discover truth. I believe that the Lord wants us to be this way. To be curious and have a desire to know Him better.
I also like that you put context in what you explain about the actual Wyatt Earp story. Tombstone gives you myopic context (as movies often do), and doesn’t let you see the larger environment and culture in which the story is set.
This idea that the church as we experience it today is a far cry from what it USED to be, I wish I had come up with the idea, but Christy Lynne Wood’s description of the Christian faith as a beautiful Lego structure and deconstruction of it as taking apart the pieces is my muse. I want to know “where did we get that idea from” in our Christian theology and then make judgments from there
Great points. Tombstone is an awesome movie, albeit with a lot of Hollywood poetic license. Many people are comfortable with Tombstone’s telling of the story, and blissfully ignorant to reality. That’s also true of many people in church. There’s an important lesson here on being curious and having a desire to uncover and discover truth. I believe that the Lord wants us to be this way. To be curious and have a desire to know Him better.
I also like that you put context in what you explain about the actual Wyatt Earp story. Tombstone gives you myopic context (as movies often do), and doesn’t let you see the larger environment and culture in which the story is set.
This idea that the church as we experience it today is a far cry from what it USED to be, I wish I had come up with the idea, but Christy Lynne Wood’s description of the Christian faith as a beautiful Lego structure and deconstruction of it as taking apart the pieces is my muse. I want to know “where did we get that idea from” in our Christian theology and then make judgments from there