Why do I mention this? Well where has the imagination and creativity gone? It seems like we have given our youth too little of a challenge of creating their own imagination. The details of movies, video games, and in so many other areas makes it almost uneccessary to imagine the pictures that are drawn out in writing. The whole story of "Where the Wild Things Are" is about the boy and his imagination, and yet they have made it into a movie so kids no longer need to picture the wonderful island for themselves, or think of the wild things, or picture what they were doing.
I have also seen this have its effect on students faith. When they are challenged with a doubt, or a theological question that they do not have an answer for, they come to me for an answer or the just chalk up an old Sunday School answer to it. Students are expecting to be spoon fed the answers that they think will easily answer the questions or doubts in their head. This is contrary to how it suppose to happen.
God calls us to love him with everything, including our minds and so often students, as well as adults have tried to find their answers in things outside of God. Just how they have come to expect in our culture to be void of using their minds, the challenge of creativity, they have started to do the same with God. The Hype has been working hard to show the students the importance of turning to God in prayer and scripture to find the answers to their questions, strength through their doubt. This is going to be a challenge we continue on to our students.
