Yet I have always struggled to articulate just what is a waste of time and what isn’t.
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Why spend a half hour watching TV when you can spend a half hour praying? Why spend 2 hours watching a movie, when you can spend 2 hours listening to a sermon? Why spend 100 hours beating that video game when you can spend 100 hours solving the problems of the world? It is a good question and we should be good stewards of our time. The next reason has to do with wasting time. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” It is what you say and do that makes one impure, not what one sees and hears. Mark 7:15 reads, “Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. There is a lot of violence in video games and much of it offends me (we will talk about that in a future post), but to avoid a longer theological discussion let’s just quote Jesus in Mark and move on. The first is summed up in the old Sunday School song, “Be careful little eyes what you see.” Under this thinking just seeing the wrong thing could cause you to contaminate the purity God intends for you. In order to begin such a conversation, it might be helpful to briefly visit the reasons that Christians have often chosen to reject artistic and cultural expressions. Such an analysis will certainly hope to meditate on whatever is true, lovely and right about video games while encouraging disciples to be thoughtful and careful about which games they play and how much time and money they spend playing them. Instead I hope to provide an analysis of the medium from my perspective as a Christian pastor. The question isn’t whether we are to accept or reject the medium as a whole.
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This blog is the first in a series of posts that will seek to speak truth into the video gaming medium. And most pastors don’t just click balls out of frogs but play the time consuming RPGs (role playing games) and violent FPSs (first person shooters) and a few of us still love the old school RTS’s (real time strategy). With that said almost every pastor I know under the age of 40 plays video games while not every pastor I know spends hours looking at paintings. Video games did not arrive on the scene until 1980 and even now they are nowhere near as popular as other mediums like movies, novels, TV shows or even those old fashioned canvas paintings (okay, I know that video games are more popular than canvas paintings. It seems we should be just as mindful of the subconscious pull then the conscious one. Whether our cognitive facilities are engaged or unengaged, the cultural mediums we interact with have a subconscious pull on us. This paradox lies at the heart of a discussion on video games and art. I play Zuma so that I can think about anything but Zuma but I am still concentrating so hard on matching those balls that I forget to blink. When I run really hard and am focusing all my attention on moving my legs faster, I still blink.īut when I shoot balls out of a frog’s mouth I forget to blink. When I work tirelessly on sermons I still blink. I never forget to blink at any other time except when I am playing a game like Zuma Blitz. My eyes get dry and my contacts fall out. I think about church and sermons and Cross Country and my marriage and my children and the mysteries of grace. While my finger moves and clicks the mouse, I don’t think about scoring points. This means I only end up playing the game for 5-10 minutes at a time before going back to regular life.ĭuring those 5-10 minutes, my mind works things out. But the reason I like Zuma Blitz is you are given five lives every hour. After a minute the game ends, unless of course you get the balls with hourglasses on them which adds 5 seconds to the clock.Īs you can tell, the game is completely realistic and carefully follows the laws of physics, if you can get over that whole frog shooting balls out of its mouth part. You are given a minute to clear as many balls and score as many points as possible. If you match three or more balls they disappear. It involves a frog shooting balls at a chain of balls that endlessly come out of two holes in the map. Over the last few weeks I have rediscovered a Facebook game called Zuma Blitz. Prostitutes, Tax Col… on The Stuff Jesus Never Always… Klorraine87 on On the 5 Year Anniversary of B… 500 Years Later, We Doth Protest Too Much! November 1, 2017.2017: The Year I Kept On Running December 31, 2017.“I Thirst”: A Reflection on One of the Last Words of Christ March 4, 2018.The Liturgy of My Local Gym August 15, 2018.What I'm Reading/Watching/Listening To (31).