Teen Ministry
The Bloomington Church of Christ Teen Ministry serves to help Bloomington-Normal teenagers develop positive friendships and learn about God. Teens enjoy participating in fun social events and activities, bible discussions, and group or individual mentoring with young adults.
The Teen Ministry also partners with other teen ministries from sister churches to build friendships and godly convictions with those from outlying areas.
Homework Questions
- What's the story? Find the narrative and figure out what's going on. Where are we? What kind of world does the movie present? What are the cultural assumptions in the world of the movie?
- Who are we? How are we invited, through indentification with the characters, to situate ourselves in that world? How does the movie depict what it means to be human? How does the movie show us, among other things, human sexuality, violence, friendship, love, work and vocation?
- Where am I (the world of the movie)? Ask questions about the nature of this "world" that you are in, get a feel for the texture of it. Pay attention to cinematic devices in the building of this world.
- What's wrong? How did we get ourselves into this mess? What are the fears of the characters in the movie?
- What are the problems they wrestle with? How are evil and good presented in relation to each other and to the characters?
- What's true here? Where has God left "footprints", his traces of grace in this popular cultural work? How do these moments of beauty and truth allude toward god's goodness?
- Is there a remedy? Can health, wholeness and peace be restored? Can relationships be mended? Does the move present a hopeful, despairing, or ambiguous world? Is there a savior in the movie? Does the move offer a source of hopefullness within or beyond human experiences? Can humans solve their own problems, or are they essentially helopless?
- What biblical texts or characters resonate with the movie? What theological concepts offer a critique of the movie's worldview? How does the Bible answer the questions posed by the movie? In what ways do the Bible and the movie depict simialr (or different) ways of naming the human condition?
- How does the movie invite me to think or behave differently? How will I choose to think and to act because of watching this movie?