Last Friday's program was about dealing with violence and violent situations. One of the youth shared a story about a 10 year old boy in the states going around with a gun, telling people to pass their jewelery to him! Where does he get those ideas from? We asked a very searching question: Will violent movies and TV-shows bring very loving thoughts into your mind?
The answer is straight forward, but has far reaching consequences: NO!
If we take this lesson serious, we should all be very careful of what we watch (and what we listen to), because it is shaping our acceptance of violence in our minds (as well as to many other issues).
We started with a very violent reaction to a situation: a dangerous spider had been released and we were all stomping around for almost a minute. This teaches us that we can react in different ways to certain situations. We could have chosen to catch the spider and bring it to the zoo!!!
We played some cool DropZone favorites like ...
... poison pole ...
... balloon pop ...
... and days of the week.
In little groups we discussed how to react to different violent situations.
Jesus always tells us to love our neighbors, but also to love our enemies. We usually do not feel like this attitude when we are attacked, but still, that is the greatest challenge in order to show what love really means: just like we hurt God when we sin and He still loves us ... He was even willing to die for sinners ... like us.
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. " (John 3:16-17 KJV)
Wow, what an awesome God!
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