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This week's prayers
7-13 March
Anotherdimension
Reel Issues, Bible Society’s ‘film and Bible’ discussion service, is taking its materials into the third dimension this Spring.
‘We’re multiplying our service,’ explains Reel Issues editor Lindsay Shaw. ‘To our existing dimension of evening-length discussions, we are adding short 20-minute guides and a whole new stream for youth groups.’
As an added enticement, all three services will now be free rather than subscription-based.
‘We launched Reel Issues online nearly six years ago as a way of helping Christians and their friends chat over the latest, popular films,’ Lindsay continues. ‘There it’s easy to talk about the situations the films immerse us in, such as people chasing their dreams, finding friendship, wanting to prove themselves, or battling their demons.
‘From this point, the Reel Issues materials also help groups together to look at how the Bible connects with these themes.
‘Our experience has been that many people on the church fringe are happy to join groups like this and start to form friendships and open up to spiritual things.’
The format is ideal too, for ‘café churches’ and those, like Witard Road Baptist Church in Norwich, whose occasional big-screen nights, complete with popcorn and cinema ads, have attracted a number of first-timers.
A partnership with national youth organisation Urban Saints (formerly Crusaders) means that teenagers will also have specially designed resources.
‘Bible Society stands out in its passion and creativity to bring the Bible alive to every generation,’ says Matt Summerfield, Urban Saints Executive Director. ‘That’s why Urban Saints is excited to be partnering with the Bible Society on engaging young people with Scripture through popular film.’
Further information: Word in Action p.7
Please pray
- Ask that many churches, youth groups and cell groups will hear about the new Reel Issues materials and see the potential for reaching people with them.
- Pray for Reel Issues writers and group leaders as they make the biblical themes in popular films come alive for people at various stages of their spiritual journey.
‘So I become all things to all people, that I may save some of them by whatever means are possible.’ 1 Corinthians 9.22