HOPE AT THE MOVIES // “Avatar: The Way of Water” and Christ

By Mark Jordan | October 8, 2023
  • Key points of Christology:
    • Fully God and Fully Human
    • Virgin Birth (Jesus lived free of sin)
    • Crucifixion (Jesus died a sinner’s death)
    • Resurrection (Jesus arose victoriously)
    • Total Authority (Jesus is over all)

Colossians 1:15-23a (NIV) | The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.

Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nDbq3KhM4&t=72s

Jesus Is…

  • Without Beginning or End
    • Revelation 22:13 (NIV) | I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
  • Living Water
    • John 7:37-38 (NIV) | Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
  • The Light of the World
    • John 8:12 (NIV) | Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
  • Jesus is our Connecting Point
    • John 14:17 (CEB) | You know him, because he lives with you and will be with you.

Reflection Questions

  1. What is Christology? What did Pastor Mark point out as some critical parts of that study?
  2. How does the Avatar: The Way of Water help us better understand Jesus?
  3. How can Jesus be without beginning or end?
  4. What do we see about our own lives when we are in Jesus?
  5. What does it mean that Jesus is our common connecting point?
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