The Frozen Gospel

I don't know how many of you have been to the movies lately, but there were some phenomenal movies that came out over the Christmas break. I watched "Saving Mr. Banks" the other day and I was blown away by the story and excited to peer into the life of Walt Disney. Movies do an effective job of captivating an audience and telling a story. They are filled with disaster, triumph and love. Unfortunately many of the movies in our culture have begun to fill our minds with unneccesary language, excessive violence and pornographic images.

I was encouraged however over the holiday season by the movie "Frozen". Disney continues to make movies that are not only appropriate for the entire family, but their movies have a purpose, they tell a story and "Frozen" did not disappoint. Story is an interesting thing, how do you draw in an audience, hold their attention and then create an ending so memorable, and with such purpose that it could even change the way in which people live their lives. After I saw "Frozen" I was talking to a good friend of mine and he began to explain to me the deep parralels between "Frozen" and the Gospel. At the climax of the movie Disney broke away from the norm and true love was not represented by a romantic action but rather a moment of beautiful sacrifice. It wasn't some earthly version of love that destroyed darkness in this movie, it was true sacrificial love.

Now I don't think that Disney intended to share the Gospel with this film, I don't think that was their end goal. What I do know is that the best story ever told is that a Perfect Creator sent His only Son to die a painful death on a cross as a sacrifice for our sins, and that through this unselfish sacrificial gift, darkness was destroyed. Although Disney probably is not trying to spread the Gospel, whether they know it or not the reason their movie is becoming so successful is because they told the story that all of our souls are desperate to hear!



"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."     -Romans 5:8