The Passion
This was a great re-telling of the
Passion. Did you notice that even the Daily Telegraph gave away a free copy
of Mark's gospel at the beginning of Holy Week. This Easter, the BBC broadcasted
a dramatisation
of the passion narrative into millions of homes across the UK.
The story of Jesus was shown in peak
time, half hour programmes - through Holy Week. The programmes
presented the Biblical narratives of events such as the Resurrection and appearences on Easter Day.
The BBC have not put this together as an evangelism tool -
they've done it because they think it will be good television. Churches
Media Council have come up with a really helpful suggested response for
Christians, and we're pretty excited about the opportunities for evangelism
that this offers!
Andy, Mike and Roy have this to say -
' We've been praying hard that quality Christian programmes
would be given airtime on the mainstream media this year in order for the
Church to engage in public discussion about Jesus.
Having seen some of the passion series which is to be broadcast at prime
time on BBC this Easter, we believe this challenging and fresh account of
Jesus' last week on earth presents The Church in the UK with a golden
opportunity and would want to encourage every Hope08 partner to consider how
they might sensitively use this opportunity to the full. "
