Kirk Franklin's A Gospel Christmas (2021 TV Movie) User Reviews

A manual of how to make someone fail AND a lot of great Gospel music

[Jackbv123 · 8/10 · 7 December 2021]

It would have been hard to do more things to make Olivia fail and she did fail for a while. "Why didn't you just ask for help?" "And give your Aunty Ida more ammunition." That's just one example, but Ida wasn't the only cause. Olivia's mother started the process. The things she did wrong are too long to list. And Olivia didn't help herself much.

Many churches have an Ida, actually all do, but probably not that many have one quite so seemingly vicious. All this is supposedly in the name of God or the common good. Oh, the things that are done in the name of God.

Somewhere in the middle of all this there is a romance. It was rushed because of all the other things.

The outcome of the story is mostly predictable.

Meanwhile, there is a wonderful abundance of Gospel music throughout the movie including many Christmas songs in the Gospel/Rock style and some hymns in the same style. The finale is fantastic.

Gospel music is, by definition, music about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Most of the songs have either a message about the salvation of Christ or praise for him. As mentioned, the finale is a magnificent song of praise. Outside of the music, there is a bit of preaching mostly about having faith or trust in God but also in self and others. It is all very related to the context of what is going on in the story.

Blasphemous

[vampirelyd · 1/10 · 11 December 2022]

Against the word of God in every way. It lies about the origins of Christmas, celebrates it as a good like the origin of Christ. Has people openly going against the word of God acting as it is the church. This movie puts a spell on its viewers and washes your spirit with lies with a bright and beautiful smile and beautiful music. The music can lul you into a sense of spirit for something the Lord himself would cry about for it hurts his spirit. This movie will cause people to stumble in faith. It has beautiful theatrics for such a reason. Watch this movie with decernment. Pray before, during and after. Keep your bible close and keep Jesus closer.

Shalom.

Hell no!

[adamjohns-42575 · 31 December 2022]

(Kirk Franklin's) A Gospel Christmas (2021) -

As suspected this film was all a bit too much for me. I'm not in to religion and I don't generally appreciate the word of God. I don't adhere to a deity that takes attendance and sets trials to test me.

While I have tolerated subtle religious undertones in a lot of Christmas films, and yes I know about the origins of the season, I just can't bring myself to watch the ones that are too heavy on the worship and God-bothering side of things.

I only recorded this one, because the gospel churches generally tend to bring more joy to the preaching and I hoped that it would mean a joyful romance, but even the worshipping was over the top, I thought that people might start speaking in tongues or fitting in the aisles. It was too extreme and I could see that this film would not be to my tastes at all within the first few minutes.

I did make it all the way until about 10 minutes in, but could take no more.

Unscored as unfinished.