Faith Filled Family Magazine October 2016 | Page 77

boys, and I have a relationship
with the Newsboys. They had a
song come out called ‘God’s Not
Dead’”.
We also had an author who just
wrote a book on apologetics.
Students were also under fire in
college and being forced to defend their faith. We were really
taken by that, and I went right to
work with our writers who ended
up coming up with a great storyline of that film.
It’s an interesting thing. We’ve
been doing television movies
for years. In fact, we started in
PureFlix in 2005, and in 2011

we had been acquiring and producing up to twenty-two movies
a year and releasing them on
DVD. So we really felt that the
next movie we would take theatrically. We produced God’s Not
Dead for 1.2 million dollars. It
was a very small movie, yet we
really felt like this is the one that
needed to go to theatrical.
At the time, there was so much
discrimination going on in colleges around the country. Additionally, we asked pastors what they
felt their congregation needed.
We had an existing relationship
with various pastors since we
previously had a church min-

istry. So when we asked them
what their people really needed
to see right now, they responded
and said that the biggest need
was to answer the question of
how do I defend my faith. How
do Christians defend what they
know? How do you know if what
you believe is really truthful or
is just something that you’ve always grown up with.
I was really drawn into the
movie, when I watched it. I
quickly realized this was definitely something that people
needed to hear.
It was amazing when it came
out, and it ties into my book quite