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CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FILM SERVICES

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CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FILM SERVICES

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Rev. W. M. Hannah, Church of Scotland, minister of Rothes, told his congregation recently, that he is to have a monthly film service on Sabbath, in a former United Free Church which has been turned into a cinema. Mr. Hannah said: “This presentation of the Gospel to the modern mind will bear more fruit from one film show than I could expect out of six months of preaching sermons.” In addition there is to be singing, reading and prayers. Mr. Hannah and those like-minded with him on this vain venture, do not properly regard the words of the Great Head of the Church, the Lord Jesus, with respect to bringing the Gospel to sinners of all nations, viz.: “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mark xvi. 15). And the Holy Spirit of Truth, is He who alone can make the reading and the preaching of the Word of God, effectual unto salvation, as was the case on the Day of Pentecost. The Apostle Paul wrote, by the inspiration of the Spirit, “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” (I. Cor. i. 21). All the genuine revivals down through the centuries, during which hundreds and thousands of sinners were truly converted, came through the preaching of the Gospel by body servants of Christ. We find no Scripture warrant to deviate from the means divinely appointed, having in view the conversion of sinners, namely, the reading and the preaching of the Word of God. These the Spirit of Truth recognizes and by them He works savingly, when He does come in His sovereign Mercy. To Timothy, it was said, “Preach the Word” (II. Tim iv. 2). The cinema and the film are but modern methods to please the eye and entertain the mind of a modern generation, with a visual presentation of Christian history. Let Mr. Hannah and others reflect on the fact that multitudes saw much of the life of the Saviour and even of His crucifixion, with their eyes. It was when the Gospel was preached by Peter; with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, that many of those “Jerusalem sinners” were converted and brought forth fruit unto holiness. Of course, we know that conversion, in the Bible sense, is not believed in to-day by many so-called ministers of the Gospel. What they aim at and believe in, is a moral decency and a superficial recognition of general Christian principles and an attachment to the “visible things” of the visible Church. The cinema itself may well fail them in reaching out even to those objectives. The fact is, that “we must be born again,” not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, which, of course, is the Word of God; “And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you” (I Peter i. 25).

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CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FILM SERVICES

Bekijk de hele uitgave van donderdag 1 september 1949

The Banner of Truth | 16 Pagina's