Today I started class with a short prayer. This time, my prayer to God sounded like this:
“God, may you guide us in this class that what I say is about you. May you also open up the mouths of my wonderful students so that they may speak and share their thoughts during our discussion. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.”
It worked. During the discussion, they spoke what’s in their mind albeit some still took a long time to respond.
Today we looked at how advertisements affected our daily lives. Advertisements drawn us to buying things that we want rather than things we need. I shared with my students, in our lives, in order to survive we only need air to breath, food to eat, water to drink, place to stay and clothes to keep us protected.
However, when human has the basic needs, we tend to ask for more, we just want more and more! Instead of a Perodua Kancil, we want Mercedes Benz. Instead of a Pilot pen, we want a Parker pen. We look for money to buy what we want. In the end, we lose our souls to these earthly desires. It is important we learn to discern what we need and want.
The way I look at entertainments is that I told them our lives are just so short - say 70 or 50 or maybe less, we need to enjoy this life. God, who created us in His image, gave us a chance to be on earth. Speaking of St Paul, he reminded us “not to conform to this age.” We have to have our stand not to drawn to things that are fashionable and convenient.
We then proceeded to a “thinking” session. I got them to think of one way to promote the Bible which is the Word of God to others. We know that an advertisement is a very good communication tool to bring messages to others, if used properly. They had 5 minutes of brain storming session.
So if you would like to know, some of the ideas are to present the Bible in the form of “recorded documentaries or videos”, “games”, “mangas”, “drawing as in art”, and make it assessable to the “web”.
One suggested that perhaps we could instead of holding a big book all the time; we divide the Bible into a series of small booklets. Make these booklets colourful, filled with pictures and light to encourage others to carry along with them.
Another idea sprang up from a very shy spoken lady. She said, “Promote the word of God through youth camps.”
I shared with them that we are all Ambassador of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20)? What is an ambassador anyway? An ambassador is someone who speaks for what he believes in, for the person or country he truly loves. In the context of Ambassador of Christ, what we do is we through our lives portray ourselves in a God-like manner and to share with others our faith.
That should be some insights to share with my dear friends. I am still learning hard to express myself well, to be more catchy, and to bring those messages right into their heads. Oh God, guide me well.
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