Sermon for January 19th, 2014
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1 John 1:5-7
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; 7but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
John 8:12
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.’
Faith & Film: The Croods
Three Minute Film Summary
As you've just seen, the Croods are a family of cavemen. Grug is the father of this family, and keeping his family together, keeping his family alive is the driving force that motivates him throughout the movie. You'll often see Grug picking up members of his family and literally throwing them out of harms way to safety. Other times you'll see him pull his family together and wrap his mighty arms around them to shield and protect them. Grug is strong, but he's also cautious. You heard his daughter say that his one rule is "never leave the cave." But also has a few others: New things are bad. Change is bad. Curiosity is bad. All of these things will kill you. And these rules are written in pictures on the wall of the cave the family is confined to for most of their existence. But as Grug's daughter says in the introduction, "What we didn't know was that our world was about to come to an end...and there were no rules on our cave wall to prepare us for that."
Grug's daughter is named Eep. Like the sound a mouse makes. But she is far from timid. Like her father, she is strong and strong willed, but she is not cautious. She's adventurous. She doesn't want to stay in the cave. She hates the dark, and she loves the light. One night while her family is sleeping in the cave, Eep sees a light...and this is an unusual thing to see in the middle of the night. She follows the light outside the cave and up the mountain, where she discovers a boy with fire (something she has never seen before).
The boy, who actually looks more like a modern human than the Croods do, is named Guy. I'll let him introduce himself. Film Clip #1. Eep and Guy, over the course of the movie, fall in love with each other, much to Grug's dismay. Before we go on, however, there's something I think we need to recognize about Guy and Eep. Remember, the Croods look like cavemen. Guy looks (and acts, and thinks) like something slightly more evolved, something new. A new kind of man. Guy means man. In Hebrew, the word for man is...Adam. So here we have Adam and Eep. The first "modern" (relatively speaking) couple. Coincidence? I'll let you decide.
Back to our story...There are other members of the Crood family: Ugga, the mother; Thunk, the brother; Sandy, the baby; Gran, who is Grug's mother-in-law; and a wide array of interesting and deadly animals.
Now, Eep's new friend, Guy, has predicted the end of the world. And certainly the world is changing. When the Crood family cave is destroyed, they are forced to go on an adventure in search of a new home. Their journey becomes the very first family road trip:
