One of my heroes in the faith, Greg Stier (founder of Dare 2 Share) was recently on the Erica Hill show on CNN and is supposed to be on the Mike and Juliet Show on Fox sometime today. He’s talking about using the new video game Halo 3 as a springboard to talk about Jesus. It stems from an article written by D2S associate Lane Palmer.
Says Greg:

My take? While we are not endorsing a violent videogame like Halo 3 we are endorsing the conversation that we should be having with our teenagers that these kinds of subjects usually bring up (good verses evil, right verses wrong, the invading alien force and the overwhelming victory that teenagers can have through Jesus!) It’s too easy to demonize culture. What we need to do is to demonize demons and use the topic of culture to win our teenagers back to Jesus.

Some Bible-believing Christians think this is a terrible idea, but I don’t, considering that I am immersed in youth ministry. I’ll put up another post later about this explaining why, and talk about Lane’s article.

(cross posted at Crisis Christianity)