![]() It sounded a bit like the “territorial spirits” notion. And Miss Clara’s comment about “kicking the devil’s butt” was wrong, in bad taste, and totally uncalled for.ģ) In the same rant, Elizabeth cries, “Jesus is the Lord of this house.” I wonder what she meant by that. ![]() Instead of taking a more biblical approach, praying for strength to “resist” the devil’s attacks, Elizabeth went to reviling and ridiculing the devil’s person in an angry way. Jude tells us, “Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!'” (Jude 1:9). Elizabeth needed to read on a little further in her Bible. Nor is it appropriate for a Christian to do. That is not what the Scripture means by resisting Satan. Really? How does she know that? The devil is neither omniscient nor omnipresent, but she “knows.” ![]() (When we sin, we are doing the opposite.)īut then, using an unscriptural technique popular in some “spiritual warfare” circles, she goes through the house, shouting angry insults and orders to Satan. That seems downright spooky! And it’s nonsense.Ģ) Elizabeth, in her “prayer closet,” quotes James 4:7 several times, “Submit to God, resist the devil,” which basically means we are to say “Yes” to God’s Word and will, and “No” to the devil’s temptations. I often pray in the living room, before my wife is up, in the car on my way to the city, and in the office alone, while I work.Īt the end of the film, a pastor goes in Clara’s closet (now stripped of everything she had there) and somehow senses that someone has been praying in the closet (“It’s almost like it’s baked in.”). Personal prayers are best offered in a quiet and private place. If that’s not an essential point, why not show alternatives by having one or two choose someplace different? (And what have they done with their clothes and other things? Closets are storage areas.) In narration over what Elizabeth is doing to her closet, Miss Clara does acknowledge that the place is not the critical thing, But Clara, Elizabeth, and the couple’s young daughter, all turn their clothes closets into a prayer rooms. It’s apparently based on Matthew 6:6, in the old King James Version, “when thou prayest, enter into thy closet.” Most modern translations simply have “room,” or “private room.” In the context of the Matthew text, the Lord is decrying the hypocritical Pharisees’ practice of offering their personal prayers out in public, “that they may be seen by men” (vs. However, there were a number of things that concerned me, so that, in spite of what is positive, I would not personally recommend the film to others.ġ) First, there’s the “closet” issue–going into a clothes closet to pray. Great! Miss Clara’s desire to pass on what the Lord had taught her was also good, providing an example of personal discipling (cf. War Room provides an interesting and emotionally intense story about a husband and wife in serious conflict (an all too common problem), and how God answered prayer and got them on the right path. Later, I went back and watched it again, double-checking some things. ![]() Question: What do you think of the Christian movie War Room?Īnswer: My wife and I watched this recently released film.
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