We don't see enough of Pete's life in Chicago.
Pete's aunt refers to her two boys as "my children" rather than calling them by their names.
Elk Ridge apparently has no service clubs, community organizations or any social safety net except for a group of barely teen boys.
The coach lets them leave a baseball game to help the Widow Jenkins.
The Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth has not been replaced. Rather, the people in Jesus' day were misapplying this Biblical principal for every wrong done to them, when in actuality the eye for an eye commandment was God's legal prescription for dealing with assault.
The world's most boring baseball announcer.
Which town do the Braves represent?
It's a Christian movie but never mentions Jesus.
A better way Scott could have lived out Jesus' teachings would have been to, I don't know, put a modicum of effort into finding out from Pete what went down in Chicago. He never even seems interested in why Pete returned, chalking it up to school getting out earlier there. (Mind you, this is sadly not unlike a whole lot of Christians, putting more emphasis on doing or not doing things to people rather than relating to them.)
Christianity is not about accepting yourself for who you are. It's about realizing you are a sinner whose offended a holy God and hurt, in ways big or small, those around you with your sins and, upon realizing this, seeking salvation from He whom you've offended. Acts 2 38
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