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    1) Evan Baxter is a newscaster-turned-congressman who moves to Washington D.C. His wife begins answering their prayers by telling Evan to build an ark. 2) Evan and his sons build a large ark by themselves in a matter of weeks to prepare for a coming flood. The movie depicts the ridicule Noah likely faced for his ark-building project. 3) The flood that prompts Evan to build the ark is local, but animals from around the world come to the ark. The film encourages acts of random kindness, but the author argues Christians' acts should be kind and focused on sharing the gospel.

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    1) Evan Baxter is a newscaster-turned-congressman who moves to Washington D.C. His wife begins answering their prayers by telling Evan to build an ark. 2) Evan and his sons build a large ark by themselves in a matter of weeks to prepare for a coming flood. The movie depicts the ridicule Noah likely faced for his ark-building project. 3) The flood that prompts Evan to build the ark is local, but animals from around the world come to the ark. The film encourages acts of random kindness, but the author argues Christians' acts should be kind and focused on sharing the gospel.

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    1) Evan Baxter is a newscaster-turned-congressman who moves to Washington D.C. His wife begins answering their prayers by telling Evan to build an ark. 2) Evan and his sons build a large ark by themselves in a matter of weeks to prepare for a coming flood. The movie depicts the ridicule Noah likely faced for his ark-building project. 3) The flood that prompts Evan to build the ark is local, but animals from around the world come to the ark. The film encourages acts of random kindness, but the author argues Christians' acts should be kind and focused on sharing the gospel.

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    Evan Almighty

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    1) Evan Baxter is a newscaster-turned-congressman who moves to Washington D.C. His wife begins answering their prayers by telling Evan to build an ark. 2) Evan and his sons build a large ark by themselves in a matter of weeks to prepare for a coming flood. The movie depicts the ridicule Noah likely faced for his ark-building project. 3) The flood that prompts Evan to build the ark is local, but animals from around the world come to the ark. The film encourages acts of random kindness, but the author argues Christians' acts should be kind and focused on sharing the gospel.

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    Name: Jazel Ann Sophia L.

    Maceda Date: September 26, 2019


    Grade: 11 – Matthew Score:

    “Evan Almighty”

    Evan Almighty stars Steve Carell as Evan Baxter, a newscaster-turned-congressman who moves to


    Washington, D.C. to take his place in congress. He drives a Hummer, and chooses 300 year-old Brazilian cherry
    wood for his new kitchen cabinets, showing he is “not sensitive to the ‘save the rainforest’ thing. His platform is
    “change the world,” and he prays that God will help him do this. His wife Joan begins to answer their prayers
    by telling Evan to build an ark. The film is full of biblical allusions and nods to the biblical account, the
    company that delivers the wood for the ark is 1-800-Go4-Wood, and references to Genesis 6:14 abound.

    Evan and his sons build the entire ark by themselves (well, with the help of the animals) in a matter of
    weeks. However, this probably wasn’t the case with the original Ark. And there’s no reason to believe that
    Noah didn’t hire outside help with his building project. The movie did cause me to think about how life must
    have been for the original Noah. Did his wife look at him as if he were off his rocker when he told her he was
    going to build a boat that would save them from a coming flood? Did his colleagues think he was crazy? The
    movie pictured well the laughter and taunting that Noah must have experienced as he undertook his building
    project. And the scenes of Evan pleading for the people to get on the Ark to escape the flood were thought-
    provoking.

    The flood for which Evan built the ark is a local one mainly confined to the valley in which Evan lives.
    It is the result of a dam that breaks due to a congressman’s willingness to cut corners on the project. In spite of
    the local nature of the flood, animals from all parts of the world have descended in pairs on Evan’s ark-building
    site. As mentioned previously, Evan drives a Hummer and chooses unreplaceable wood for his cabinets. He
    agrees to cosponsor a land-use bill in congress that would take land away from protected areas. In fact, this
    movie is being touted as minimize its impact on the environment through various means.
     

    At the end of the movie, God reminds Evan of his promise to change the world. And how do we change
    the world? By doing acts of random kindness. Although I agree that we should be kind to others, what’s the
    point of encouraging Christians to do random acts of kindness? Our acts should already be kind as we imitate
    the actions of our Savior. There should be nothing random about what we do but we should seek opportunities
    to love our neighbor more than we love ourselves, and preach to those around us the saving gospel of Jesus
    Christ.

    I’d suggest making this film an outreach opportunity. When your friends tell you they’ve seen it, talk
    about the size of the Ark with them. Answer their questions about how Noah could have fit all the animals on
    the Ark. Point out the effects of the worldwide global earth-inundating flood that left its mark. And bring up
    that the original Ark wasn’t built to save the animals or to demonstrate believing in each other. It was built to
    save a remnant of mankind from God’s righteous judgment on man’s rebellion against Him. Show them that
    they are sinners in need of a Savior, and that Jesus is our Ark of salvation.

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