The Power of Simulating Violence in Youth Ministry

"I simulate violence all the time. Most guys that I know play video games, you know, we'll literally be hitting each other over the heads with baseball bats while we shoot fireballs down each other's faces," he says. "It doesn't make me at all want to really do that to anybody and we'll do that in the church." But if we sit as a group of guys and like watch pornography or a show that has all the sex and nudity, it triggers something in me... It can take a guy who is doing his best to move past the struggle of pornography and bring them right back to something they worked so hard to get out of right".

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