Facing the Giants was produced in 2006 by Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia on a budget of approximately $100,000 and made largely by church volunteers. The death crawl scene was filmed in a single day. The actor playing Brock actually crawled the full length of a football field with another actor on his back while blindfolded. It was not a camera trick. The scene became one of the most shared short clips on the internet because it does exactly what the best film scenes do: it shows something true about human nature that people recognize immediately in themselves.

First Corinthians 6:19-20 sits inside a section where Paul is dealing with men in the Corinthian church treating their bodies as if what they did physically had no spiritual significance. Paul's response reframes everything. Your body, he says, is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You were bought at a price. The word temple in the first century was not a metaphor. The temple was the dwelling place of God's actual presence. Paul is saying that after the resurrection and the coming of the Spirit, the dwelling place of God's presence has moved. It is now inside the body of every believer.

Brock started convinced he could only make it to the fifty yard line. Coach Taylor blindfolded him so his own vision could not limit what his body could do. He crawled one hundred yards without knowing it. The connection to the Scripture is this: Brock's body was capable of more than Brock's mind would allow. The body Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 6 is not a cage for the soul. It is a temple, designed to house the presence of God, designed to be offered as a living sacrifice, designed to do more than the man himself would attempt if left to calculate his own limits.