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30.4.2012

by Shahro Causkar

MACHINE-GUN PREACHER 

Highly recommend Gerard Butler's new film MACHINE GUN PREACHER. Is the true story of a drug addict, ex-convict biker, Sam Childers. 'Saved' in a US Pentecostal church, he later hears a visiting missionary mention the 35 year-long war by Muslim/Arab North Sudan against Christian/Black South Sudan. When he hears that two million Black Christians have lost their lives, he is appalled.

By now a lay preacher, he flies to South Sudan to 'see for himself'. The situation is even worse than Sam imagined. The ex-biker is by now running his own church for ex-addicts and bikers. Built by them and himself, Sam becomes its pastor. 

His main foci: saving souls off 'the street' in his own city but also saving lives of his new African friends. Not a man to PRAY and not ACT, before long Sam's channeling funds to South Sudan. He builds a feeding centre for 1,000 children and a 'rescue centre' for 100 kids saved from the infamous Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. Kony, we are told in the end credits: 

'has killed 400,000 people & enslaved 40,000 kids'.

Pastor Sam Childers is not one to 'turn the other cheek'. Unlike other christians he defends his fellows. Before long Sam finds it necessary to defend the feeding & rescue centres against LRA attacks. He goes pro-active, launching raids on the LRA. The battle goes so well the LRA puts a price put on Sam's head. 

We recommend this portrayal of real-life Christianity, not the fake one-day-a-week kind we're all used to. And its all true! Sam Childers is still out there battling the Islamist LRA as we sit at home doing nothing. Watch this; give it away as a Christ's Day present to some unbelievers. Use it to inspire slacker christian into becoming Holy Warriors.  
10/10 rating.