Sign up for free e-mail alerts about breaking news, entertainment tips, daily recipes, sports teams or travel. The Jesus Video Project of Texas, a mass mailing to 8.4 million homes, will give each Texas household an 83-minute video about the life, teachings and message of Jesus and the Gospel. Project organizers say they predict that as many as 4.1 million people will respond by either converting to Christianity or rededicating their life to Jesus.
People can either choose to look at the video or ignore it.
The video shows a film released to theaters in 1979. Representatives of Florida-based Campus Crusade for Christ, which is leading the project, said 112 million people worldwide have committed their lives to Jesus after watching the video. Although the mailing goes to everyone rather than targeting non-Christians, some say many people will still find the unsolicited mailing offensive. Many Jews will put it in their trash cans, and I suspect many Hindus and Muslims will do the same. Briskman said the Jesus Video Project of Texas isn't as offensive as a 1999 Southern Baptist campaign to convert Jews.