The View of Christian Marriage in Movies

This week I spent some time in the theatre seeing movies seeing some cheesy Christian movies like God's Not Dead 2 and Miracles from Heaven. Miracles from Heaven shows what a Christian Marriage could be like, but what about Christian dating?

   

Christian dating is kind of a weird niche to be in. Some couples may not touch for months or kiss before they are married, but all of these couples trying to see if marriage is the decision are doing something- they are laying a strong foundation.

Something that Christians believe is that a foundation built on God lasts. While not all of you readers will agree with that, something we can agree on is that relationships have to be built on a foundation. Whether that foundation is God, love, trust, mutual understanding, or contract, relationships are built on something. The stronger the foundation the better the relationship can be.

In God's Not Dead 2, Melissa Joan Hart is a Christian single adult female who through the process of defending her faith, meets a nice (attractive!!) single adult male, through this process they begin laying a foundation through spending time together and getting to know each other. This foundation of trust that Melissa Joan Hart has laid is latter betrayed. This foundation has a crack. If you know something about architecture, when a foundation has a crack, depending on where it is, the foundation may have to be torn up and relaid because it cannot hold. The relationship within this film is not broken, just damaged, and together they can fix it and build upon it.

In Miracles from Heaven, the mother and father's foundation has already been built and is now being tested. The security they had is gone and everything gets put on the line, but will their relationship fall? No. The credit cards are maxed, the tension is high from possibly losing their child, and throughout all that happens their relationship is shaken because one party is acting in faith and the other acting in doubt. They have to balance what each of them feel is right. In a Christian relationship, when God speaks to one party and not the other faith seems risky, and nobody likes risk. No matter what struggles we face we have to find a way to be on the same team working together. Dating is seeing what page each of you are on and finding a way to make it be the same one


In whatever relationship you are in, whether it is a christian relationship or not, the foundation needs to be able to hold you together when all hell is breaking loose. This foundation is the security of a relationship, it is something that keeps you both on the same page. It is the glue.