Jesus Camp

At first when I began to watch the movie, I thought these people were crazy! Then I began to realize that much of what they are saying is the same thing I believe, they are just more radical. I do not agree with everything that they think, but in some ways I want to be like them. All the kids are so on fire for God and they seem like they would do anything for Him. Like the little girl who gave the tract to the lady in the bowling alley, or the boy who got up in front of all those kids to preach, or even the lady to devote her whole life to ministering to kids. I would have a hard time doing any of those things. I wish I would get out of my comfort zone like those kids did. But that is too uncomfortable and scary. Which is ridiculous when you think about what all God has done for us and not sharing it. All it is is selfishness. I was really convicted of this while watching this video. I thought if a little 8 year old girl (maybe) could go hand a tract to some stranger, I can talk to a friend about God. There were many good things about this video and the people at Jesus Camp. They were taking a stand for what they believed in. They strongly disagree with abortion, as do we. But they are trying to do something about it. They went to the white house to petition and they committed to pray for the decisions of government. Yeah, somethings they did were kind of crazy and maybe not completely right, but they are doing a lot of things right that I do not.
There are quite a few things that they did that I do not agree on. Like when the little girl was talking about "dead churches" and how if the people at the churches don't stand up and raise their hands during worship time, that God isn't there. I think that what she said is definitely not true. God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. You do not have to stand up and raise your hands to be Christians. Also another thing that I am not sure about is when the kids started talking in tongues. In the Bible in 2 Corinthians, it talks about when someone is speaking in tongues, there needs to be a translator present. In this video and at this camp there was not. There were just a ton of kids speaking in tongues. I don't think tongues is necessarily a bad thing, but I think that people need to be careful doing it. Another thing I am weary of is when the main lady said that Christians have a "spirit-man" living inside of them, and when the read the Bible, pray, or spend time with God, their "spirit-man" gets stronger. I can understand kind of what she meant, maybe that we each have a relationship with God and when we do those things we get closer... I don't know, but I am not sure what she meant by "spirit-man". And in one part of the movie it showed a kid laying on the floor convulsing. It never explained it though and I want to know why. One last thing I disagree on is when the little girl was bowling and told her ball in the name of Jesus to get a strike. This makes me think that the girl heard people throw around that term WAY too much. I hope she doesn't think that you can command something in the name of Jesus and make it happen.
One last thing that we do need to keep in mind is that this was only an hour and a half so movie. And think of much we have not seen. I am pretty sure that if I were the directors of this movie I would have chosen the craziest things I could find possible. We have probably missed a ton of stuff. It could have been different than what the movie portrayed completely. We should not judge them, we should just pray for them and that they will be teaching the correct doctrine and  that we do also.