Come Sunday is one of the newest additions to Netflix's streaming service. The movie chronicles the story of Bishop Carlton's struggle as a famous, beloved pastor in the Evangelical, charismatic church, a struggle that brings him to accept God's universal reconciliation of the entire world. A pupil of Oral Roberts, Pearson is a family man struggling between the pull of fame and his own beliefs. After watching a program focusing on the genocide of Rwanda, whose citizens are not Christian, hence going to Hell according to his doctrine, he believes he's spoken to by God and renounces Hell altogether. He begins to preach "the gospel of inclusion", that all souls will be forgiven by God, drawing the ire of Roberts and eventually being labeled a heretic by the church.
What this summary misses, though, is the real dynamic at view in the movie. What happens when one's faith and social belonging collide -- in much the way trains on the same track collide and go off the rails.
Come Sunday is an honest look at Christian faith, and gives us a three-dimensional look at Pearson's struggle in that faith and the cost those struggles take on his relationships in the Body of Christ.
This movie crafts a must-see reflection on what happens when one's faith in God comes into direct confict with the social expectations that often come with this faith.