Do You Believe

As I sat down in the church pew watching the movie Do You Believe I found myself looking at my own life in an unusual way. This movie is about 12 different people who lead different lives, some believers and some non-believers. The movie will have people on the edge of their seat wondering will he jump, will he pull the trigger, what will she do with the baby once it’s born. It is captivating how a simply question from one man can set off a wave of events that only God himself could have had a hand in unfolding. The movie will present a homeless pregnant teenager, a criminal who stumbles into the church while running from the cops, an EMT worker who witnessed to a dying man and is being persecuted for it, a doctor who has a God complex, and a money hungry lawyer just to name a few. This movie definitely has all types of personalities covered and in the end

The most important scene of the movie is when the pastor is driving along and is confronted by a man dragging a life sized cross down the street. The man walks up to the pastors car and asks him the question “Do you believe in the cross of Christ?”. The way the question takes over the pastor’s thoughts and how he presents the message in his sermon shakes the lives of many of the characters to their core. The pastor tries to help a homeless pregnant teenager as she is seen rummaging through trash, but his wife refuses to let the girls stay at their house. The pastor puts her in a hotel room with food. From that one simple question he was asked, the pastor then delivers a spellbinding sermon. His words make his congregation examine the very essence of their Christian beliefs. His wife goes to the hotel room and brings the girls back to their home with apologies and in a tear filled moments you understand her hesitance in the