Indiana Jones and the Journey of Faith

For Summit tonight we watched the first half of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The discussion was great, and we want to use this blog as a place to continue the conversation, look deeper at the questions, find new questions and more insight into how God interacts with us and the journey we take in order to find and understand Him better.

Throughout the film Indiana struggles with the relationship between him and his father. Always trying to impress and appease him, he only finds his father not paying attention to him, busy with his own life and leaving Indiana with a feeling that his father is never really there (a feeling that most everyone has felt in his or her relationship with God at one time or another). How is Indiana's journey of faith shaped by his quest for his dad, and not trinkets? When Indiana and his father are sitting at the crossroads in the motorcycle debating over where to go, what does Jones Sr.'s urgency to go to Berlin to get his diary tell about what he believes?

Indiana also struggles with his faith. He is in the field of Archaeology, which looks for facts, evidence and historical items. Or in the words of Indiana Jones, "Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall." How does Indiana's faith change? What is Archaeology to Indiana and does it change as the film progresses?

Remember, use this as a place to ask more questions about the movie, God, faith or other things you think of. See you next week!