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Schindlers List: Whoever Saves One Life (Matthew 25:40)

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Oskar Schindler in Schindlers List begins as a war profiteer exploiting Jewish labor for personal gain. Slowly, imperceptibly, he is converted - not by argument but by relationship. He sees faces, learns names, witnesses suffering. By the films end, he weeps that his car could have saved ten more people, his pin could have saved two more. The Talmud teaches: whoever saves one life saves the entire world. Jesus echoes: whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me. Schindler shows how conscience awakens - not in grand moments but in accumulating particulars until we cannot look away from the face before us.

Topics & Themes

salvationcompassionconversioncouragewitnessdignity

Scripture References

Matthew 25:40Proverbs 24:11-12James 2:14-17

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