{"id":151,"date":"2011-09-02T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2011\/09\/to-save-a-life\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:28:00","slug":"to-save-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2011\/09\/to-save-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"To Save a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Last night our family watched <i>To Save a Life<\/i>, an indie Christian movie aimed towards high school students. \u00a0When we watched <i>Soul Surfer<\/i> back in Hawaii, there was a preview for this movie, the kids begged to see it, and luckily Netflix offered it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"To Save A Life Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bvXktDeAEmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Generally I don\u2019t prefer \u201cChristian\u201d art. \u00a0Too often, it isn\u2019t very good art\u2013trite, simplistic, sentimental. \u00a0More concerning, I often don\u2019t recognize the faith the art espouses or recognize the God it serves, even though I\u2019ve been following Jesus most of my life. \u00a0(Just like I don\u2019t recognize what the media calls \u201cevangelicals,\u201d even though that\u2019s been the church stream I\u2019ve swum in most of my life)<\/p>\n<p>But all 5 of us loved to\u00a0<i>To Save a Life<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>It begins with the funeral of a school shooter who took his own life. \u00a0Jake, his former best friend, dumped him to pursue popularity, a hot girlfriend, and acclaim as a sports star. \u00a0The movie follows Jake as he wrestles with his role in his friend\u2019s suicide, the meaning of life in general, and how to respond to the pain of high school culture, his parents\u2019 failing marriage, his girlfriend\u2019s rejection, and the consequences of his own behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019re some things I liked about the movie:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The problems Jake and the kids wrestled with were real: \u00a0drinking, drugs, sex, peer pressure, broken families, cutting, rejection, isolation, a social caste system.<\/li>\n<li>The youth pastor who tries to help offered the love of the God I know. \u00a0He listened, he asked questions, he didn\u2019t preach. \u00a0Hey, I\u2019d hire the guy!!<\/li>\n<li>The church had serious flaws, including a head pastor who didn\u2019t get it, and whose son was rebelling. \u00a0Unfortunately, I recognize that too well also. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>But what I liked most was how the movie gave us the chance to talk with our kids about values, how we treat people, and what it means to risk leading so that life and good come to your community.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not to beat up on the high school swim team captains, but the fact that my kid, who, as a new kid, was excluded from the carpool, was an example of bad leadership. \u00a0As I said to her, \u201cGood leadership always watches out FIRST for the marginalized, the new, the weak. \u00a0The older girls who are \u2018in\u2019 can always find a way to take care of themselves.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Scott pointed out that the swim team captains acted like all high school students do. \u00a0Of course they took care of the popular, the in-crowd and their friends first. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That may be the stream of high school culture, but I think we can ask more of high school leaders, even if their only in their teens. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I felt vindicated when my friend told me her son\u2019s baseball team, with 12 year old captains, have been trained by their coach to call around the night before every game to make sure everyone gets a good night sleep, has a ride, and is doing OK before the game. \u00a0Now that\u2019s GOOD leadership.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So if you have kids old enough to think about these topics, I highly recommend watching\u00a0<i>To Save a Life <\/i>as a family. \u00a0After all, if our kids can stand courageous on behalf of others, who knows what lives could be saved?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night our family watched To Save a Life, an indie Christian movie aimed towards high school students. \u00a0When we watched Soul Surfer back in Hawaii, there was a preview for this movie, the kids begged to see it, and luckily Netflix offered it. 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