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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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- Featured: A personal note from our president, Jonathan McKee. We now are able to serve you even better with our new dedicated server… still for free!
- Something You Can Use: “Munich” Video Discussion Idea with Small Group Questions, Scripture and Wrap Up
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| Featured: A personal note from our president, Jonathan McKee. We now are able to serve you even better with our new dedicated server… still for free! |
Luckily… many of you didn’t notice that we weren’t!
I’m embarrassed, but in the past few months, our web site had been lagging on occasion. People would click on one of our buttons for free game ideas or curriculum… and wait… and wait…. and wait…
NOT ANY MORE! As traffic to our web site has increased, so has our need to expand. Last weekend we just made the switch! We took our entire web site and moved it to a faster, more reliable dedicated server. The site is more responsive and gives you what you need when you need it. This switch was made possible by invisible donors, so we don’t need to ever charge you for our resources.
Our email is also more reliable. If you’ve emailed us in the last month and haven’t heard back… please email us again. We lost quite a few emails in the switch (thanks to our old, unreliable web server).
We’re glad to serve you even better. Free quality resources are our specialty. Thanks for using The Source as your resource for youth ministry!
Sincerely,
Jonathan McKee
President
The Source for Youth Ministry
| Something You Can Use: “Munich” Video Discussion Idea with Small Group Questions, Scripture and Wrap Up |
Our world’s history is full of wrong doings-wrong and unfair acts that seem to deserve retaliation. Races kill other races. Brothers even kill brothers.
How are we called to respond? I’m not talking about a political debate or a discussion on capital punishment. I’m talking about what we, as individuals should do when someone is cruel to us.
Introduce Movie Clip: In 1972 eleven Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, Israel put together a special team of Mossad agents to track down and assassinate every one of those responsible for the murder.
In 2005 Steven Spielberg released the highly debatable film, Munich, which told a fictional story, based on these true events. The film earns its R-rating quickly and is hard to watch in parts. (CLICK HERE for Jonathan’s review of this film) I want to show you a one minute clip-the clip is completely clean.
This scene is two hours into the movie. The Israeli team has been assassinating Black September members one by one. Some of the Israeli team members are starting to feel guilt and regret for their actions. They are beginning to question their methodology-after all, they are Jews. They were raised to be righteous.
In this scene the four remaining Jews on the Israeli assassination team are boarding a train to go kill a lady that just assassinated one of their own team. Robert hesitates as he approaches the team. Avner, the team leader, stops to talk with him.
- Start clip at exactly 2:00:19 into the movie as you see four men walking upstairs toward a train. Robert stops. Avner stops to talk with him.
Robert: So, you’re really going to kill her? All this blood comes back to us.
Avner: Eventually it will work. Even if it takes years, we’ll beat them.
Robert: We’re Jews, Avner. Jews don’t do wrong because our enemies do wrong.
Avner: We can’t afford to be that decent anymore.
Robert: I don’t know that we ever were that decent. Suffering thousands of years of hatred doesn’t make you decent. But we’re supposed to be righteous. That’s a beautiful thing. That’s Jewish. That’s what I knew. That’s what I was taught. And now I’m losing it. And I lose that… that’s everything. That’s my soul!
Scene ends 2:01:24 with the shot of Avner’s face as he takes in what Robert just said. End the clip before Avner’s next line. (Definitely don’t go any further with the clip. The next scene is brutal-you will NOT want to show it!)
Let’s divide into small groups and discuss this some more.
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Jonathan McKee
Jonathan McKee is the author of over twenty books including the brand new The Guy's Guide to FOUR BATTLES Every Young Man Must Face; The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon Best Seller - The Guy's Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for youth workers on TheSource4YM.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and their three kids live in California.