Engaging Every Generation

Ideas

I am not an ideas guy. At least not like some youth ministry folks I know who always find creative ways to do new things – or new ways to do old things. However, one struck me recently…

Bumper Sticker Theology (you could create a BST slot in your youth group rotation of program elements so that it eventually comes up perhaps once a month or whenever students notice good ones to discuss)

Challenge your students to notice bumper stickers that reflect a theology or worldview and get your group engage with how it stands up to scripture. Introduce the idea by throwing one of your own to the group for discussion. Once they get the hang of it, ask the group to bring bumper sticker statements to meetings to discuss briefly. If you can, get them to think beforehand about the theology of it and compare it to scripture.

Here’s one I noticed that could get you started… “The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth”

Discuss…

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  1. Matt Marino Avatar
    Matt Marino

    This discussion could get fiesty fast!

    Since it is Lent: "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return." (Gen. 3:19). And yet, in the same book (1:28) God told us to subdue the earth and rule over it.

    Perhaps we have over-subdued and not done a very good job in our stewardship. I suppose Moses could never have imagined a planet with 9 billion humans on it. I do think that one's end times theology shapes one's view of how to treat the planet. If you are a pre-millenialist, it doesn't matter how you treat the place since it is going to be remade after going to heck anyway.

    I am glad my children's generation cares about this. In a self-serving manner I would rather not check out the way Edward G. Robinson did in Soylent Green.

    So perhaps my contribution to this discussion is a quote from the imminently quotable Charlton Heston: "People. It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people."

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