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 Come Sunday is a film produced by This American Life based on a true story that the radio show first reported about a successful Pentecostal bishop who gets into hot water when he dissents from the traditional doctrine of eternal damnation.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })It's 1998, and Carlton Pearson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is leading a fulfilling, if hectic, life running a multiracial Tulsa megachurch while jetting around the country to save souls. However, he's starting to feel overwhelmed by the project: his imprisoned uncle Quincy (Danny Glover) commits suicide, his organist Reggie (Lakeith Stanfield) is struggling with his homosexuality, and finally he sees a TV report on the genocide in Rwanda, leading him to wonder if all those non-Christian children are really going straight to hell after being brutally murdered. He prays and hears the voice of God telling him that no, those people aren't going to hell because Jesus' sacrifice saved everyone already. When he shares this at church, however, this leads to a split in the congregation as well as a breach in Pearson's relationships, including with his mentor Oral Roberts (Martin Sheen), who believes that Pearson actually heard the voice of the other guy.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })First seen at Sundance, the film was released on Netflix in 2018.
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 As the Good Book Says...: Not surprisingly, there's a lot of Scripture-quoting going on in the film, most dramatically when Carlton has his right-hand man Henry (Jason Segel) read aloud from 1 John 2 ("He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.").
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 Beard of Sorrow: Carlton sports a finely groomed pencil-mustache for most of the film, but as his Crisis of Faith starts seriously taking its toll on him as he loses his job, he grows a full beard.
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 Both Sides Have a Point: While the film tells the story from Carlton's viewpoint, his opponents are portrayed sympathetically, and reasonably question Carlton's undoing so much of the work that he did and the relationships he built on account of Hearing Voices.
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