Appropriateness

A Show About Golf is Very Appealing, But Is Generating Miracles Appropriate For My Group?

Generating Miracles is a continuum of stories from the Champions Tour, told with intelligence, warmth and humor, about Bill Rand’s nine-year effort to qualify to play there and what happened when he tried. His original purpose was to prove that certain human potential principles could be used to accomplish anything, but it didn’t take long for it to become much bigger than that. The early stories are about how God got Bill’s attention and the later ones continuing evidence that his awakening wasn’t the result of a false alarm.

Generating Miracles is a mainstream story with a spiritual theme. It is not a religious presentation. If a story about how a man set off in unblinking pursuit of a dream and got the biggest surprise of his life instead would be appealing to your group, Generating Miracles would be an inspiring evening’s entertainment.

There is a hunger in the culture for material like Generating Miracles. It’s the only explanation for the success of television shows like Touched By An Angel and Joan of Arcadia. Touched By An Angel, was on the air for nine years. Joan of Arcadia produced forty-five episodes over two years and was voted a Peoples’ Choice Award in 2005. And, of course, Mel Gibson’s, Passion of the Christ, ignited a huge box-office firestorm eventually ending up as number ten on the all-time domestic box-office list. The fact that Passion was an unabashedly religious film and still tapped deeply and broadly into the consciousness of our culture points explicitly to our hunger for spiritual messages.

The same is true in popular literature. Rick Warren’s, A Purpose Driven Life, sold twenty-five million copies. Joel Osteen weighed in with Your Best Life Now, selling 1.5 million copies. And, supported by a PBS special by the same title, Dr. Wayne Dyer managed a hefty 750,000 copies of his book, The Power of Intention. Each of these books is explicitly about how God works in our lives.

And each of these formerly implausible successes makes choosing Generating Miracles a timely and appealing choice for your group in virtually every situation where attendance is voluntary.

But in the end, it comes down to this: take a second look at the above picture and ask yourself, “Would a Tour pro with a swing that looks that good do anything to embarrass me or my group?” The answer, of course, is no.

And who knows, in a show about golf and spirituality, there might actually be some golf tips as a more worldly form of reward.