#HASHTAGS, SELFIES & BEING A CHRISTIAN ONLINE // #KYCK14 RESOURCES
Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are part of everyday life for teenagers. Are they harmful or harmless? This seminar will help you to think about how belonging to Jesus will impact the way that you connect online.
I recently gave a seminar across three weekend at KYCK 2014 (a Christian convention for youth) seeking to help young people consider how to think about how they behave and relate online.
This post is jam-packed with resources useful for youth, youth leaders, parents, pastors and echidnas.
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HOST A TAKE LOVE EVENT // #TAKELOVE
ANGLICARE Sydney and Fervr.net invite you to host a TAKE LOVE EVENT in June 2014!
Host an event in your youth ministry, school or Christian group and join us as we pray for ASYLUM SEEKERS and REFUGEES and the issues they face in our world.
For more information and to register go to: takelove.com.au
I love some of the youth initiatives that are coming out of Anglicare. At Soulies we plan on hosting a #TakeLove event on Friday 20th June and then following it up on the Saturday with some #TakeLove projects.
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LOOK UP // A MUST-SEE SPOKEN WORD FILM FOR AN ONLINE GENERATION
“Look Up is a lesson taught to us through a love story, in a world where we continue to find ways to make it easier for us to connect with one another, but always results in us spending more time alone.”
What a challenging video from Gary Turk! I argue in Bread & Circuses that we can so easily become enslaved to food and entertainment that we become distracted from reality. The answer to the problem raised in the video is more than put down your phone and look up. The ultimate answer is to see what truly satisfies and to see things from an eternal perspective.
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LEVEL-UP // #ESCAPETOREALITY
Movies, entertainment, celebrity culture, video games, digital media and social networks are often used to escape from reality. The goal of this 4-part series is to consider how to escape to the reality that comes in knowing Jesus.
Part 4 of #EscapeToReality
THE GAMIFICATION OF LIFE
I recently learnt about an emerging trend called the gamification of life. It’s basically turning life into a game complete with points, incentives and levels. 1 point for cleaning your teeth. 5 points for taking rubbish out. 10 points for inbox zero. 20 points for doing your most dreaded tasks. After a certain number of points, you can reward yourself or somehow move onto the next level.
From the examples I’ve read online, it looks like a useful way to get things done!
Using little incentives is not just for those “gamifying” their life, we use all sorts of little incentives in different ways. Maybe if you complete a certain amount of study you’ll get to go for a surf. Or if you achieve this goal, you’ll treat yourself to something special.
When it comes to the Christian life, followers of Jesus don’t need to create little incentives and rewards. There is a bigger incentive and motivation.
DO NOT LOSE HEART
In 2 Corinthians 4 the big goal of the Christian life is to “not lose heart”. It’s the idea of preserving until the end in the Christian life. Like a runner lasting to the end of the race, the Christian is to keep going and keep trusting Jesus.
In this series ‘Escape to reality’ I have argued that movies, entertainment, celebrity culture, video games, digital media and social networks are often used to escape from reality.
My biggest goal has been to show that we all need to escape to the reality that comes in knowing Jesus.
This passage one of best “escape to reality” passages in bible. It will help us to see the forest from the trees.
It’s easy to get caught up on the here and now. We are so easily distracted by the things in front of us: the smartphone, gaming console, the guy or girl you’re interested in. But we fail to see the bigger picture of eternity.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 will help us to see the big picture and give us the ultimate level-up.
There are three things that we see will give us the persecutive so that we will not lose heart.
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