God's Not Dead 2: My Movie Review

If you're like me, you've been patiently (or impatiently) waiting for the release of God's Not Dead 2 from the minute you heard about it. When the wait was finally over, my family and I jumped straight in to watch it. I personally give this movie 5 stars. What I found most interesting was that in the credits it showed you how many Christians have been in situations such as the one our main character in the movie, Grace Wesley, went going through. People are being persecuted for teaching or simply speaking about God's Word. I often thought that this type of persecution only happened in foreign countries where Christianity is prohibited, but even in a country that was established on the Word of God and freedom of speech, these things are becoming more and more common every day.

In the movie, Grace Wesley is accused of preaching to her students by answering a question with some Biblical references, seeing as she quoted the Scriptures some students felt insulted. One student in particular, recorded what she said, making the whole thing a riot of epic proportions. Grace receives a lawsuit that sends her straight to court on a debate to prove wether or not simply quoting a Bible verse can be considered against the law. Nowadays people think that they can divide the church from the rest of society because we are 'insulting people' or don't exactly agree with the standard that a MAN has in his/her mind of what churches should be and do. In some states the government is making pastors turn in their sermons and the state law gets to determine wether they should be preaching that or not. This oppression is becoming greater and greater with each passing month proves one thing, our Lord's second return is near!

Although standing strong in our faith while living in this anti-christianity society can prove to be quite challenging, as Grace Wesley said in the movie, "I would rather stand by GOD and be judged by the world, than stand by the world and be judged by GOD."  This world will cease to be as we know it, but God never will. Get your heavenly passport ready because this plane may leave any moment now and you don't want to lose your flight.



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