Richard Gazowsky has a vision from God... or so he thinks. This pastor of the small, charismatic church the Voice of Pentecost in San Francisco believes with all sincerity that he is to make a full-length motion picture titled Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph. This film would be, in his words, a fusion of Star Wars and The Ten Commandments and would be like "nothing ever seen before": a big-budget, big action motion picture event that would be seen by millions, ushering in a new era of Christian filmmaking that would revolutionize not only Hollywood but the entire world. After all, "the message of the cross is dream big," Gazowsky tells his small congregation.

Gazowsky and his followers' foray into filmmaking is chronicled in Mike Jacobs' simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking documentary Audience of One. The audience of one, of course, is God Himself and Gazowsky proudly boasts that he is making this leap of faith not to please men but to please God. It is hard to imagine that the Creator would be very pleased watching this rag-tag group of bumbling amateurs attempt to undertake such an endeavor. The fact that this is all being attempted "in the name of God" makes it all the more sickening and difficult to watch. Yet, like a car crash or a grisly sports injury being replayed over and over ad nauseum, it is hard to look away from the brash and, dare I say, ballsy in-your-face faith of Gazowsky and his followers. Don't get me wrong; these guys are a bunch of crack pots... I just don't think they know it. They truly believe they are on a mission from God, and why should they let things like competency, experience, truthfulness, submission to authority, and love for neighbors get in their way?

Backed by phantom finance partners "in Germany," Gazowsky creates WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Productions. The underlying thread of irony in that name weaves its way through the pre-production in the United States, the beginning of principal shooting over five days in a remote village in Italy, and never-ending planning sessions in a rented movie-studio located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Everyone on the set from the inexperienced actors, the puzzled extras, and the overworked and underpaid production crew are frazzled to the point of exasperation. That is, until Gazowsky can pump them up again about the "vision" and the importance of staying the course because God is doing something "big here."

On one hand it is compelling to witness the determination and dedication this group has. That is, until, you come to the harrowing realization that their mission is so misguided and their intentions so misplaced that it becomes not just idiotic, but truly damaging to the cause of Christ and His body, the Church. This is not all fun and games here. To the undiscerning eye, the actions of Gazowsky and his followers are linked with all who call themselves Christian. Like it or not, we are all guilty by association.

So, Mr. Gazowsky, you can have your vision of WSYWIG, your big-budget science-fiction biblical opus Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph, the dream of eight Christian TV networks, the Christian airline with terminal, the 27 Christian resorts worldwide, your outer-space travel (yes, this is one of their goals), and colonization of another planet. The only true revelation in Jacobs' Audience of One is the exposing of you and your followers as frauds and, even if your heads are too stuck in the clouds to know it, the damage you are doing to true Christianity.