philisophical/diabolical strategery...

these students will not be easily fooled...they might let on that they are fooled or play stupid, but they understand what is happening in the world.

they are all upper middle class, so they are connected with the computer, ipod, psp, nintendo ds, xbox, tv, internet, instant messenger, myspace. all of these things have a way of defining us as people. we are controlled by what we spend our time in. i think when it comes down to it what all of these things point to are...

image

and

community...

these are two things that are so important to a person in this life. what they look like, what defines them, what makes them who they are, what shapes them, the way they look at themselves, the way others look at them...it all comes down to image and community... ironically the only way anyone is truly going to find these things, is when they find their peace with GOD.

i woudl guess that my mission will be to help people find out that there image and community is not found in themselves but it is defined with their relationship with the image and the community. i don't even know if we will ever find out who we truly are or who are neighbors truly are, but as long as i get them to think of there life, and realize that no amount of effort released on their part will fulfill what they truly need. it is found in the one who was the original.

i guess that my strategy would have to be something that keeps their attention, yet something that they will not see everywhere else. There needs to be a reason for them to listen, something that says "i will learn something at youth group that i will not learn anytime else during the week"

i would do things that would help them to build their image...find what they are good at and let them roll with it until they accept it as their own, until they accept that it is a gift, until they accept that it was given to them from GOD.

i would do things to help build community, somewhere where everyone feels like they are welcome. i want everyone to be accepted at youth group. if they don't...we are failing. i want the lines of skin color to be blurred, i want the lines of social class to be blurred, i want the line of appearance/weight/image to be blurred to a point where everyone is forced to be honest with themselves....i am an idealest...

its alot easier to write it, then it is to act it out. I want people to experience the beauty of other people. not be confined in themselves, learn from other people, love other people, experience the maker through his creatures.

i desire for everyone to see themselves as they truly are...people just the same as everyone else just learning from each other and learning from GOD...

ill let you know how it turns out