{"id":651,"date":"2009-08-06T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-08-06T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T21:12:02","slug":"clint-eastwood-is-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/clint-eastwood-is-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood is Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, this isn’t loco logic here. Jesus is not Clint Eastwood. But I just finished watching Gran Torino, the movie that Clint Eastwood starred in and helped make.
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\nSpoiler Alert<\/strong>:
\nIf you haven’t seen this great movie, stop reading this blog and go rent it. Redbox has it for only $1 a night. What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n

Now, I’m still not going to spoil the ending, but I will couch my words carefully. The character in Gran Torino, Walt Kowalski, relates to the Messiah in ways that few people do. Did you not see the symbolism of the cross he makes so clearly in that one scene?<\/p>\n

Like the movie Seven Pounds, there’s a purposeful gift in this movie. Walt gives of Himself. There’s also some discipleship and reproduction going on, too. It’s awesome.<\/p>\n

There’s another scene where the young disciple Thao gets beat up and the tools loaned him get stolen. He’s obviously done something disappointing to the very person that cared enough for him to disciple him and share wisdom with him. But did the “Father” acted disappointed? Not even. “Don’t worry about the tools,” he said. He showed this guy that he was more valuable than stuff. That’s love, articulated so carefully and boldly.<\/p>\n

There’s another scene where Walt goes in to see a priest and confesses his sins. He’s real with the priest, bringing up old stuff that’s weighed on him for years. He shows integrity by ‘fessing up to things like not paying taxes on a boat and motor he sold. It was wrong, flat-out. He didn’t justify it or paint it pretty. And the priest without reservation told him: “God loves you … I absolves you of all your sins.”<\/p>\n

What a blessed movie. That’s all I’ve got to say about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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