OPEN RANGE
I love westerns - especially those with real heroes who always know on which hill to die. My favorite western: Open Range. A story of two cowboys, 
both "had been ridden and put up wet," but they were committed to the same thing. Robert Duvall's values were symbolized in friends, cigars, chocolate, and comfort paper Kevin Costner was more reluctant to be so expressive, but his "tea set" gift to the heroine gave the viewer hope in his redeemable qualities. But one thing guided them both: free grazing only because it was right. It was freedom. It was life. They fought for it and were willing to die for it.
Church planters resemble Duvall and Costner: pioneers, mavericks and risk-takers - guided by what is right - or are you? What are your symbols? What do they mean? Where did they come from? They let others know your grit to commit. More specifically, several open range questions must be addressed by all cowboy wannabes and church planers: What will you live for? What will you die for? Do you know when to choose between the outcomes?
