Monday’s press conference at the NRB announcing the mission to invest heavily in independent Christian film making at the SAICFF, has sent a surge of interest in the cause of Christ-centered media outside of the Hollywood machine. The Lord has been kind to open up numerous opportunities to interact with the press and share a message of no-compromise in the battle against anti-Christian culture. Here is part of the message I have been sharing on television and radio (as in the interview pictured):

“In the battle for culture, Christians are eating the scraps that have landed on the floor from the Hollywood table. Strategically, we have as a community largely limited our efforts to simply detoxifying some of the most poisonous elements of Hollywood films. Too often we drink deeply from films which advance worldviews at war with God, and we are content to do so as long as there is no overt immorality. We have set our sights very low, and the result is that we often find ourselves in a position of cultural retreat—or perhaps like the little boy with the finger in the dike hoping to hold back the floodgate of destruction, but seeing the inevitable destruction.

This is not a vision of victory.

We believe more is needed. We believe that Christians need to build a replacement industry dedicated to films which honor Christ from top to bottom. We need to make the long-term investment to train and equip independent Christian filmmakers who are committed to distinctively Christian film-making for the glory of God.”