GEN_R_ATE OnFire Blog

Cool. With it. The bomb. Or is that bummer...?

Meet Ignatius. The new age guru of gab, stagecraft, image, and slick sales...but what is he selling—and to kids? Com‘on!

Ignatius from travis hawkins on Vimeo.

The videographer comments:

• This is a video we produced for a free event for youth ministers. It was conceived as a satire for what I consider to be an unhealthy "rock star" culture that has been growing inside Christendom, as well as an encouragement for the unheralded heroes on the front lines of ministry. Shot by Taylor Robinson and George Wiley, with video post by Jason Poole and audio by Eric Chapman and Nate Dregger. The role of Ignatius is played by our friend Josh Keefer.

So what do you think?

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So this is what it means to be free—? That was the question asked by many people—young and old, teens included—in the former Soviet Union after the fall of Communism. They faced having to make their own way in life, providing for themselves what the government formerly handed them. Other people in different circumstances ask the same question, teens especially.

So what is freedom really? And is it really "off the hook," as advocates of doing "my thing" say; or is it rather a "bummer," as too many teens find out when the down side of street life dawns one day like a freezing, windy rain?

So What does it mean to be free anyway?

The NEWSBOYS describe it in a surprisingly different way:

Do you agree? Comment?

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