Where can God’s love be found? What does God’s love look like? Can God’s love overcome the darkest places in the world? Darren Wilson, an independent filmmaker, set out to answer these questions. His documentary, “Furious Love”, shows what it looks like when Christians step out into the darkest places to share God’s love. The film was shown Monday, Feb. 22, in White Auditorium on Spring Arbor University’s campus.

“This film depicts how radical God’s love is,” said Ken Brewer, Associate Professor of theology who hosted the event. “This film should stir you.”

In “Furious Love”, Wilson takes his audience around the world from a deliverance revival in Africa to a bar frequented by prostitutes and transsexuals in Thailand. Though the film has miracles in it, and is a sequel to Wilson’s “Finger of God”, a documentary devoted to the miraculous work of God around the world, the focus of “Furious Love” is showing how only through genuine love can miraculous transformation happen.

“I think [“Furious Love”] will open up a lot of religious eyes,” said Christian Blalock, a resident of Jackson. “We need to go to those places and heal those people. We need to penetrate that evil [the places viewed to be the darkest].”

Bryan Wisdom, a graduate of SAU, said the film not only shows how desperately Christians need to be stepping out in faith and loving the people they would rather avoid, but also how dangerous it can be to live in an environment where a clear distinction is not made between evil and good.

“Things may be worse here, where everything is in the gray,” said Wisdom, referring to the tendency evangelical Western culture has of hiding sin, where people live their lives as if everything were perfect when darkness is just underneath.

An admission fee of five dollars was charged with two-thirds of the proceeds going to Wilson’s production company Wanderlust, an organization devoted to bringing quality films showing how God is at work in the world. The other third of the profits will go to support the work of Compassion International in Haiti.