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No Greater Love

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Can love survive betrayal? A broken marriage? Ten years of separation? Full of drama, laughter, and some exciting plot twists, "No Greater Love" reminds us that "many waters cannot quench love, nor will rivers overflow it" (Song of Solomon 8:7).

The screenplay, sound score, and production quality of the film are all excellent. With one or two exceptions among minor characters, the acting is top notch. Quinn and Bisutti are brilliant in their lead roles and relationship. Best of all, we find a picture of redemption that ascends even beyond the story of one man and one woman to the only One who perfectly characterizes love: Jesus Christ.

It's difficult to compete with the big budgets and hi tech equipment of Hollywood, but movies like "No Greater Love" show that Christian studios are finally coming of age and making it to the big leagues. How encouraging that the greatest story in the universe - our redemption through Jesus Christ - is finally being told in creative, quality, and winsome ways through modern media.

The movie No Great Love is about how amazing love is. The love that a husband has for his wife, the love that a father has for his son, the love that a person has for themselves to seek help from addictions, and best of all is the love that the Lord has for us. My family watched it and we laughed and cried. The Biblical truths, the drama, the romance, and the music in this movie rates a 10! We have been blessed by this movie!

I saw this movie and was really impressed with the production quality, depth of the plotline and most of all the solid message. Can't wait to get my copy -- I will be quick to share with many couples I know!

Everyone should see this movie. No Greater Love brings the subject of marriage reconciliation to the forefront in a age where divorce is emphasized.

My husband and I were given this movie to watch after we gave our own testimony of marriage reconciliation at a marriage retreat. The movie really touched our hearts and we could relate to it on many many levels.

UPDATE: We just saw this movie on the big screen and it is even more awesome!

My husband and I reconciled after 16 years of divorce. The emotions that "Jeff" and "Heather" and even the friends of Jeff and Heather are all right on. That is a lot of what my husband and I felt during the process. Sadly, most people (Christians included) do not know how to reconcile a marriage that has been broken. We were both told to move on, find someone else, "she's never coming back", etc. When God did bring us back into each other's lives and it was so obvious to us where God was leading us, there was still some confusion. But God's word in I Corinthian 7: 10-11 settled it for me: "...let not the wife depart from her husband: but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband.." We felt as if we were still married in God's eyes as we hadn't remarried anyone else while we were apart. But we still got remarried again for legal reasons.
God is in the marriage reconciliation process. It is not just fiction. God did it for us.

Okay, I loved this movie there is only one thing I don't like about it. In the movie they said if they got divorced they could not be remarried because she could not be yoked with an unbeliever. At one time I would have agreed with that, except for our church did a series on divorce that made me think differently. You see, yes the bible says not to be yoked with an unbeliever and if they had never been married to each other before I would say she shouldn't marry him, but based on this scripture Matt 19:3 "And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?" 4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, `Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." 7 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?" 8 He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery." Now if you are divorced how can you commit adultery, I believe the answer is because moses allowed for divorce because of the hardness of hearts, but God doesn't allow for divorce. I believe once you are one, you are always one in God's eyes. God hates divorce weather or not you are a believer when it happened and the reason remarrying another is adultery (unfaithfulness) is because you are cheating on your true spouse. Also in 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 it says " To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife." If she divorces her husband she should be reconciled or reunited in some translations. My pastor who is also a professor at Moody says we should never take his word for it, but always check the scriptures. I loved this movie, I'm even going to buy it, but I feel that they misinterpreted scripture. I know a lot of people believe this, but I don't think it is right that if they were divorced, they could not reconcile because she is a believer now and he's not. The reason I even bother to write this is because if someone is out there that wants to be reconciled to their spouse who is not a believer and they are, or the other way around, I believe God would want you to be reconciled, I don't think you are divorced in His eyes. Now I could be wrong, but I strongly believe that is a correct interpretation. Don't take someone's word for it, even mine, study for yourself and pray.

The message of this movie is powerfully delivered. The main character, Jeff Baker, is faced with difficult situations that he must work through, and in the process he learns important lessons in what makes a great marriage. Heather, the lead lady, must work through what God expects of her as well. I believe that this movie will be an encouragement to many who grapple with the same issues it deals with, which includes forgiveness, love and a second chance. I highly recommend this movie for both married and single people because some of the lessons the characters learn are universal.

Being a lover of classic literature and having a bit of an artistic side, I have to say that the quality of this movie is excellent. The character development is well done and believable, and the acting is high quality. The plot moves forward at a good pace, keeping the viewer's interest throughout the movie. The filming techniques used are artistically beautiful and greatly enhance the movie. I was very impressed and refreshed. This is not a cheesy or forced movie.

Excellent movie depicting the power of God's forgiveness and how couples struggling with divorce and social issues especially when it comes to children, can be reunited with the love of Christ

This show started out very well, but ...

When Heather (the wife who left the protagonist, Jeff) is finally reunited with her husband, we find that her life has been transformed by God and that she has become a completely new person. She is sorry for what she did to her husband and her child by abandoning them and is desperate for their forgiveness and love.

Then, when Jeff decides that he can and does forgive her and loves her and wants her back, he is informed by her new Pastor that Christians can't marry non-Christians. And since this "pastor" could just "tell" that Jeff wasn't a Christian, there was no way that the pastor was going to let Jeff have his wife back!

Imagine this!!

It was at this point that I turned the movie off.

Here we see a redemption and reconciliation of a husband and a wife complete in every respect, except for another man standing in the way of this reconciliation: A man claiming to represent Jesus Christ!

"Nope, sorry Jeff. I don't think you're a Christian. Yeah, she might be your wife, and the mother of your child, but she listens to me now. Unless you join my church, I won't give her permission to come back to you."

Please listen people: They were already married. They are married. In God's eyes, this never changed. She was this man's wife, the mother of his child. She begged forgiveness, he granted it. She repented of her sin, and God forgave her! Jeff deserved and needed to have his wife and child's mother back!! It would be God's will for them to join together again that very minute.

But no, this was not good enough. Some man in the name of Christ then puts a burden on Jeff and Heather that GOD did NOT place and this is completely wrong.

She was his wife and had the right, nay the *duty* to return to his grateful, needing arms.

1 Corinthians 7:13-14: "If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband."

I think that is pretty clear! Jeff more than consented to live with her, he begged her to! They were bound together under the law, as it says in verse 39: "A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord."

It also says: "Wife, how do you know whether (you might not) save your husband?"

This is a clear implication from the Bible that the wife of an unbeliever is bound to him and ought to remain with him regardless of his spiritual condition because to do OTHERWISE is against the will and character of God.

This is not how God operates. He does not take your wife from you and then hold her hostage from you unless you "become a Christian".

I found the movie uplifting and encouraging. I thought that it really showed the true power of love, and I felt that it covered the doctrine of divorce very well. I think the movie was recorded very nicely, and it seemed like good quality film. One thing I see from watching many christian films is that they are poorly recorded; however, most have a great message. This film was really top notch. I also enjoyed seeing stars from Disney in this movie like the guy who played in Not Quite Human and the teacher from Boy Meets World. I think it was a moving film but not the best that I have seen. However, my father did cry according to my mom which in itself is a miracle. lol.

This is a spoiler comment upon the doctrine behind the movie so don't read if you really are interested in watching the movie.

I see that some people had a problem with the way that the marriage was treated in this movie. I believe it was handled right. The pastor thought that the couple was divorced. Now, one was saved, and one was lost. The husband wanted the wife back, but the wife felt she could not go back because then she would be unequally yoked with a sinner. I think this is pretty Biblical. Once the pastor found out that the divorce never went through. Then, he encouraged the husband and wife to stay together which is also Biblical. As long as the unbelieving spouse will strive with the believing spouse, then they are supposed to stick together. I don't really see what problem people are finding with this. It is straight up scripture. The pastor thought that they had both divorced when they were unbelievers so requirements on avoiding divorce did not apply to them as non-believers. I just really don't see what people are fussing about. If you need the scriptures, I can give them to you if you comment on my review. I am very schooled on this subject since I had to go through a divorce a couple years back at the request of my ex-wife. Since then, I have read book after book analyzing the scriptures on divorce. I have even studied the scriptures in greek and hebrew. This was really sound doctrine.

Heather was lost. She returns after 10 years, seemingly a different person, and Jeff wonders why. Heather was not only lost physically, but she was also lost spiritually. All that is changed now because Heather has chosen to place her faith in Christ alone and accept the free gift of eternal life in Heaven that God is offering to every sinner. As a by product of her salvation, Heather is now able to love Jeff in a new way that she never could before. Heather has changed now that she is saved and her testimony makes Jeff want to be with her again. It also causes Jeff to want what Heather has: a relationship with Jesus Christ. The message of the gospel could be a little clearer in this movie but I love the way it portrays what salvation can do in the life of a believer who is following Christ.