This just goes to show how true the stereotype of Americans being too trigger happy is.
Some guy sees an unknown person in your basement at night. Instead of confirming their identity, he (a trained cop) decides to shoot first and ask questions later. Nice move!
Considering that they also invented the FPS genre of gaming, it’s hardly surprising.
Has anyone else watched all 23 episodes (including the season’s finale) of Heroes?
I haven’t had the time to elaborate from my late-night thoughts about this ministry, so I’ll try to tidy up some of the things in my mind and present it in a sort-of-meaningful manner.
What Yeahshow does successfully is to make Christianity accessible to the masses. It’s unfortunate that Christianity has often been shelved as an “established religion” and so people can choose to brush it aside and avoid the “important” questions altogether (is there a God? What is he like? What is the meaning of life? etc). An event like Yeahshow is effective in forcing people to think about these issues.
What I think isn’t so successful about events like this is in providing the answers to the big questions, or at least, I think the message that it delivers is extremely compromised for the sake of entertainment (in the form of comedy, music etc). The visitor is introduced to the questions in life, and is entertained in the process. When asked whether he/she accepts Christianity as the solution to the questions in life, he/she reflects on what he/she has heard over the night. He/she bears no ill feeling because he/she was entertained, and so accepts Christianity as having the ultimate answer.
A simplified illustration is as follows.
What the? That’s not how evangelism is supposed to work! But that is what happens a lot of the time. What’s the missing link? What is required to keep the man going in his walk of faith instead of suffering from disillusionment?
The answer will be revealed in my next post, or perhaps you can enlighten me with what you think.
Another big Christian evangelical event, but it set a record as the largest ever Chinese evangelical event in Sydney with over 7000 attendees.
With a big event like this, there are obviously going to be a lot of questions asked, of which some are:
Other questions (not specific to this show, but about ministry in general) include:
It is late, I’ll try to answer these at another time. Or if you have a comment, please leave one.
Ever since I got my modded Wii, I went into a frenzy trying to get all the games that I can, but I haven’t really found a game that I can stick to. Is the Wii overrated? Or is it just purely for party games?
Here’s a list of games that I’ve tried out:
I’ve found Trauma Center to be lots of fun, but I’m stuck on the same level as on the DS version.
Warioware was lots of fun but I finished it a bit too quickly, but this will be great as a party game.
Dragon Ball Z was just too hard to play. It’s actually more like Virtua On or Gundam than a normal fighting game. Maybe I just need to spend more time on it.
Naruto is fun only because I’m a fanboy, but it’s not technically very advanced. The controls are generic – all the characters are essentially identical in usage, except that the jutsus that they perform. The game is graphically amazing. The Naruto animators manage to use cell shading to its maximum potential (much like the anime).
I only had a brief session with Super Monkey Ball, and I only played a few of the mini games. Some of the games are really fun, but then some are totally “wtf?”.
Super Paper Mario is kinda fun too, but it’s too slow paced for me, because it plays kinda like an RPG. And the story element is just plain silly (which is to be expected I guess).
Here’s a list of games that I have but haven’t tried out yet:
Here are the games that I’m still downloading:
