A while back I asked, "Are you going to see The End of The Spear?"

Well I went to see it on Sunday with two friends.  Our husbands had seen it the weekend before.  And I thought it was amazing.  I thought it was awesome to see a movie that portrayed real Christianity in action - people who lived modestly in order to serve others, who made sacrifices, and who loved people enough that they were willing to risk death just to *try* to take the gospel to them.

Don't get me wrong, the movie was hard to watch at times.  Not because it was gory or crude, but because you knew what was going to happen to those men.  However, knowing how the story turns out made it bearable.  Knowing that those families would not grieve and become bitter, but would instead choose love and forgiveness. 

I was humbled when the son asked his father if they would shoot the natives if attacked and the father replied, "No son.  We can't do that.  They're not ready to die.  We are."  Can you imagine? 

I was blown away by how the missionary wives chose love and forgiveness, rather than bitterness and hate. 

I was enlightened about the culture of the tribe - why they fought so much, their thoughts about death, and family. 

I was amazed at how the missionary wives and the native woman shared the gospel with the natives in a way that they could understand.  Truthfully, I was just suprised to see the gospel shared so genuinely in a movie.

My hope was renewed to see how God used those people to change one native and then a whole tribe. Can you imagine - a whole tribe?  If those men and their families had not cared so much and risked so much, who would have reached those people?  They would have died thinking that how many people they had speared would help them jump The Great Boa. 

And then one of my favorite lines in the movie was when Steve Saint says to Micayani, "You didn't take my father's life.  He gave it."  Think about that.

No matter what the noise or outcry is about the lifestyle of an actor, this movie has a beautiful Godly message.  One that I hope many see.  And I imagine it's one that Satan would prefer many people not see.  Think about that.