We had the opportunity to attend the premiere of the movie ¨Poema de Salvación¨, put out by Canzion. It´s a Christian movie, and the goal was to make a movie as good of quality as any other movie that comes out in theaters, since Christian movies tend to be more made-for-tv quality. It is a movie based on the life of Pablo Olivares, a Christian singer who used to be a death metal rocker who made a deal with the devil (for real) and was becoming a star in Argentina until a series of events led him back to Christ. His conversion is thanks mostly to the prayers of his mother over many years, and he is now a great Christian artist.
A neat surprise was that Marcos Witt was at the premiere. Marcos Witt, if you don´t know, is probably the single most influential Christian singer in Latin America. He is also a pastor at Lakewood Church in Texas, where I believe Joel Olstein is also pastor. Marcos Witt is pastor for the Spanish-speaking services. He´s an incredibly neat person, and we got to meet him, so that was pretty cool.
The movie was really neat, and I think God will be able to use it to touch a lot of lives. Marcos Witt talked about the movie after the premiere and he said that their goal is to make many more high quality Christian movies, because Christians should be doing things even better than the world does them. Since our generation and the younger generations are so visual, movies like this one and like the Passion, for example, have an incredible potential for evangelism.
If you notice this movie in theaters near you (I asked and they said it would be released later in the US) I would encourage you to go so it. Not only is it a great movie and a very interesting story, it´s a great effort by many Christian people and I think we should all try to support it!!
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