I had the opportunity to watch Ray Comfort’s new upcoming YouTube documentary The Fool this evening. I found it to be very interesting and inspiring.
If you’re unfamiliar with who Ray Comfort is, he’s an evangelist who was originally born in New Zealand, but has been working out of Southern California (primarily Huntington Beach) for the last decade or so. He has partnered with the former atheist child actor turned Christian, Kirk Cameron, for many years. He’s the guy in charge of Living Waters.com as well as The Way of the Master.
The Fool speaks about how a little comedy bit that Comfort had been using for years was ridiculed incessantly — but was eventually used mightily by God. He had a comedy bit where he spoke about how a Coke can looked like it had a designer, and then compared it to a banana. Eventually, the atheist community picked up on it, and started calling him a buffoon and an idiot, and gave him the moniker “Bananaman”. While they were relentlessly mocking him, however, the gospel was getting out — to millions of people.
Being “Bananaman” opened the door for Ray Comfort to speak to many atheists and people who opposed his work, but most of the people were cordial with him. His ability to reach all of these people would not have been possible if people hadn’t been mocking him for all of these years.
For a movie, The Fool is fairly short — it’s a little over an hour. It kept my interest the entire time. I cried a little towards the end. When he goes to Huntington Beach, comfort often talks to people, and some people come to see him quite often. The Fool cuts to scenes where he talks to one of these regulars; I’m not going to spoil what happens, but it did leave me in tears.
When it is released (sorry, I don’t know the date) it will be released for free on YouTube. I will definitely be sharing it with my friends, because I found it to be inspirational and convicting.