TBC Youth Group

Movie Nights are something we often resort to, when there is nothing else planned, but this one was actually planned, and on the schedule.

As usual, we started off with a bit of free time, which allowed David to bring some of the guys to the video store, to pick out movies. (The rule is that the movies have to be PG or less—so PG, or G, or Family—which normally causes a lot of arguments. But this time, the guys simply followed the rules, and didn’t put up a fight.)

John then led the devotion, in which he is continuing to bring us through the Old Testament, and how the events there point to Jesus’ life and work. Unfortunately, when we broke into groups to discuss things, David’s group got very off track (although the discussions with other groups went well). One of the main things which sidetracked the discussion was the issue of God speaking to people in the Old Testament; how did they know that it was God who was speaking to them? Fine, you hear a voice, but how do you know that that voice is the voice of God? How do you know you’re not just crazy, or that someone is not just playing a practical joke on you? David didn’t have an answer for that question—“they just knew” wasn’t really a good response—so maybe this would be a good topic for future devotions.

After the discussions, however, most of the kids weren’t interested in watching the movie—Alvin and the Chipmunks—so they went downstairs for basketball, while the ones who were interested—mostly the girls—stayed upstairs and watched. David, who wrote this post, only watched a small portion of the movie, as he was going back and forth between the movie goers and the basketball players, so he can’t critique the movie here.