Monday, December 17, 2007

BAPTIST LEADER, POPE, & DALAI LAMA ON FILM




Dec 16, 3:39 PM EST

Baptist leader joins pope, Dalai Lama in documentary on faith.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- Pastor Frank Page says he has learned to be wary of the media during his tenure as head of the Southern Baptist Convention.


But, he said, he is glad he opened the doors of his church to documentary filmmakers looking to show the personal faith of some of the world's spiritual leaders.


"Because of who I am, I talked about Jesus Christ every other word, every other phrase, because I knew if they cut out Christ, they're going to have to cut out everything I say," Page said. "If they really want to know, as evangelical believers, who we are, then we cannot speak of who we are without speaking about Christ."


Filmmaker Jules Naudet said he wanted to include Page, pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, because the Nashville, Tenn.,-based Southern Baptist Convention is the second-largest religious organization in the U.S., behind the Catholic Church.


"In God's Name" also will feature Pope Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama, the archbishop of Canterbury and leaders of other faiths "to show individual examples of personal faith through these great spiritual beacons," Naudet said.


"It was to show all these great leaders, but to show them in a way that the audience can relate to them," he said. "Sometimes when you look at the Dalai Lama or the pope or the president of the Southern Baptism Convention, these are titles that inspire a lot of awe and a lot of seriousness and maybe a little bit of distance."


Naudet said Page's church was open and welcoming to his film crew.


"It's always a little bit taxing, I'm sure, on the people when we arrive. We're a team of eight people. And here he was opening literally the doors of his house to us," Naudet said.


The program is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Dec. 23 on CBS.


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Information from: The Greenville News, http://www.greenvillenews.com


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P.S. Brethren what this development brings to mind is: "By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near".


Testimonies for the Church Volume Five (1882-1889) Pg. 451, Ellen G. White.

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