T.D. Jakes in the Movies

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I think that the definitions of Christian films are broadening every day. That the call of God is taking us to go into all the world to project, to maintain our values but to be able to present them in a way that is congruent with the mandate to go into all the world and to produce a film. I don’t like to be relegated over the Christian film because I think it alienates the very people we seek to serve. When you say that something is a Christian film, what does it mean? Does it mean that non-Christians shouldn’t see it or that it’s not for them? I think that what we need as Christians is a film that really reaches into all the world.

Do you see that’s the direction where faith-based film is starting to go into is more mainstream?

I think we have to go into that. I think that not only faith-based films, all films that are relegated over to particular communities like African American films or what have you are learning that as the world meshes together, as we commune through [the] Internet and through technology that we can no longer isolate any message to one group of people. And I think it’s very, very important to realize that people have an interest in faith. Even those who are not of faith and those are the people that we want to seek to serve. So we have not tried to label it or isolate our message and I think many, many more people are going more mainstream in their scope and their vision [is] to reach a wider audience.

Not Easily Broken was about marriage. [Jumping the Broom] is about marriage. Why a film about marriage?

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