Halo 3 Church Services
Hear that deep rumble of video-game bombs exploding? It may be coming from your local church. Some congregations are attracting youth with the popular—and extremely violent—video game, Halo 3. The Microsoft creation, which allows players to fight in a futuristic interstellar war, is rated M for mature content.
The practice is defended as a tool for reaching young males. Associate pastor of Family Church in Albuquerque, N.M., John Robison told the New York Times, “We’re using it as a tool to be relatable and relevant, and most people get over it pretty quick.”
Others balk at the audacious outreach. “If you want to connect with your teenage boys and drag them into church, free alcohol and pornographic movies would do it,” James Tonkowich, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy told the paper. “My own take is you can do better than that.”
The practice is defended as a tool for reaching young males. Associate pastor of Family Church in Albuquerque, N.M., John Robison told the New York Times, “We’re using it as a tool to be relatable and relevant, and most people get over it pretty quick.”
Others balk at the audacious outreach. “If you want to connect with your teenage boys and drag them into church, free alcohol and pornographic movies would do it,” James Tonkowich, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy told the paper. “My own take is you can do better than that.”
posted by Drew Dyck at 11:29 AM
3 Comments:
Sometimes it takes a hand from the outside to reach into the pit that I am swimming in to help me get back to the path I've lost and been detoured from. Please use whatever means you can as the way to help others find the path they've wandered from.
We can do better 24/7! Halo 3 is just entertainment much like sports! It does not encourage a unified discipleship effort. It might include brotherhood but not true fellowship that comes with the Lord as our Focus for gathering. It also leaves out certain folks that are necessary for a family of Beleivers to be complete...mature Christians and females.
That's a great idea...more game play means more opportunity to reach the younger generation (the game players). In my church, we have a group of young adult males who get together for such an activity. There is fellowship plus gameplay, yes X-Box gameplay. We actually play Ghost Recon 2.. there should be more get togethers like the Halo 3 church.
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