I have always had a profound faith. It’s what keeps me going on those days I feel as though there is nothing left. I need to tell my story on the seriousness of my reaction to this movie— it has changed my outlook on life in general.
I can’t explain the sorrow I felt as I watched the movie. I was actually sobbing and started to weep uncontrollably. There was something inside of me that changed that afternoon; I felt so ashamed, as though I have wasted so many years on things that really didn’t matter. I looked around at the people in the theater afterward and thought to myself, What in the world have we done to our society? We are clueless to what’s really important. I felt angry—that we are beings of pettiness and destruction. I was not only emotionally drained, I was physically drained from the movie. I was upset at myself the whole night and didn’t have words to say; I just kept asking for forgiveness. And I still cry when I think about Jesus on the cross asking for His father to forgive the men who crucified Him.
—Internet submission
Well, I have been a “Christian” for many years, but the past several no one could tell from my lifestyle. As a matter of fact, to make money I started a website that would be considered soft-core porn by some and nothing by others, but I was heading in the direction of adult entertainment for sure.
I went to see The Passion, and after seeing what Christ went through because of His love for me—a visual of what He paid for my salvation, and the “friend” He was—I had to close the site. It will be deleted from my servers within the next week. This movie touched me so much I took my kids and my friends’ kids to see it, and one of them accepted Christ as her Savior afterward.
■Internet submission
I have been a Christian for about 20 years now. After watching The Passion I had a hard time getting out of my seat, let alone leaving the theater. Although only 7:00 p.m., I went to bed—with my Bible—upon arriving home. I have not stopped thinking and praying since. My encounters with everyone, good and bad, have been affected. Although I realize I am seeing the actor’s face, they are Christ’s eyes looking right into my soul as I now interact with others He has created and loves. And the flashbacks of just what He would do to allow me to have eternal life. ..I will never forget. At least, that is my prayer. I remember the disciples saying things they would never do and yet...
—Internet submission
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
JOHN 3:16-18 NKJV
