Reality TV for your youth group
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Reality TV is everywhere these days. The other day I was heading to lunch with some guys from work and everyone was talking about the biggest loser and who they thought should have stayed on the show.
This idea of ordinary people becoming tv stars even if only for a week is a fascinating idea that most of us seem to gravitate towards for some reason. We like to see regular ordinary people on the screen and we like to see real life situations we encounter everyday.
Recently in our youth ministry we decided to create a reality type show for an upcoming series in our youth ministry. We decided to follow four students and show them going through various spiritual disciplines (quiet times, scripture memory, prayer and fasting).
This week I am filming a student as he attempts to do a quiet time every morning before going to school. This was a new concept to this student and so far has been an interesting exercise to get him thinking about God early in the day. After filming for 2 days I am really excited to see how this project will turn out. Perhaps a project like this will help other students to get excited about spiritual disciplines and see them in a very new and practical way.
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