Tulsa physician Enis Sakirgil opened a store last month in south Tulsa that sells Christian and family movies on Blu-ray and DVD.
"Jesus was always talking in parables that would bring images into people's minds. Movies are the parables of today," he said.
His store and the online video sales business that supports it are the most recent expressions of a family faith that extends back for centuries.
Sakirgil was born and raised in Antioch, Turkey, one of the centers of the early church, and a city where the followers of Jesus were first called Christians.
He comes from an Eastern Orthodox family in a land where Christianity once flourished but which now is 99 percent Muslim.
Sakirgil said he became a born-again Christian when he was a medical student attending a church founded by American missionaries in Istanbul.
He was attracted to the church because the services were in Turkish, his native tongue, and not in Arabic, like the church in which he was raised.
He became a worship leader in the church and founded the first-ever Christian rock band in Turkey, he said.
During his medical residency in Turkey, he heard about In His Image, a Christian family-practice residency program in Tulsa. He could not get the idea of attending the residency program out of his mind, he said.
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