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...there are different ways to go about it. The Passion of the Christ, for instance, was marketed to evangelical leaders and had an overarching message-an unflinching focus on Christ?s Atonement-that spoke to the center of evangelical belief. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the Christian symbolism was much more subtle, but the movie adapted a beloved work by one of Evangelicalism?s most revered interpreters, C. S. Lewis, and was authorized by his stepson...
...second had to do with the martyrdom?s sequel. In a breathtaking gesture, several of the dead men?s widows befriended and lived among the Waodani, and the tribe eventually converted to Christianity. One of the wives, Elisabeth Elliot, wrote about it eloquently in ?Through Gates of Splendor, ? which became a Christian classic. In combination, says Jonathan Bonk, director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, the event, the event, coverage and aftermath ?absolutely galvanized? a generation of young evangelicals. LIFE continued to revisit the story for years...
...events' memory ever totally abated.In recent years, Steve Saint, the son of one of the slain missionaries who took up his father?s calling and worked among the Waodani, has made vastly successful appearances at Christian concerts, megachurches and conferences with Mincaye, the Waodani (now a dentist) who killed his father. Melinda Perry, who attends a conservative Presbyterian church in Nashville, saw the duo with her 12-year-old daughter at a concert by gospel artist Steven Curtis Chapman...
...Afterward seven of her group repaired to a Starbucks to discuss their reaction. Some thought that it was too subtle in driving home the Gospel message, but Perry says ?I think there?s a coming generation? of evangelical teens ?who are in a discovery process and want to discover [Christian] things woven through stories of people?s lives and authentic endeavors? rather than necessarily having them spelled...
...must not take upon herself the political battle to bring about the most just society possible," he writes. "But this does not mean that charitable activity must somehow leave God and Christ aside." He said Catholics doing good works need not proselytize in the process, but added that "a Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love speak alone...