Tim gets born again at a Christian summer camp during high school, but when he comes back to his public high school, he realizes that Jesus has become more important to him than anything else in his life. He doesn’t want to hang out with his worldly non-Christian friends anymore. He wants to make new friends with the youth group at his church. Eventually he starts to date a popular girl from the youth group, but finds out that she’s shallow, vain, prideful, and doesn’t really care about living for God; she’s just into the youth group for the social aspect and the safety it provides. His dad, who’s a rich secular humanist, gives his son a hard time about his faith, and keeps insisting that he’s joined a “cult,” even though he’s just a Bible believing Christian with a new desire to live right. His dad constantly pressures him to backslide, to try and have a “normal” social life, and party with his worldly non-Christian friends. His former friends persecute him for becoming a Christian; and get into trouble with drugs, fornication, crime, and the police. The friendship evangelism concept confuses him (Psalm 1:1; James 4:4). This reinforces Tim’s decision to mainly stick with Christian friends and walk on the straight and narrow path. But he finds out his so-called Christian girlfriend has no heart for the lost; and that the other youth group kids feel the same way. They have no heart for evangelism: they’re just into themselves. His former best friend, who was a non-Christian, goes through some family trouble as his parents get divorced. He slowly and reluctantly expresses a desire to go to the youth group. Tim reaches out to him and invites him to go on a camping trip with the youth group. But while on the trip, his friend gets lost on whitewater rapids; and Tim goes after him, risking his life to save his friend. This moves his friend so much that he also gives his heart to Jesus. There’s three Keith Green songs in this film. –J.B.

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