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    Re-Create Study Guide: Building a Culture in Your Home Stronger Than The Culture Deceiving Your Kids
    Re-Create Study Guide: Building a Culture in Your Home Stronger Than The Culture Deceiving Your Kids
    Re-Create Study Guide: Building a Culture in Your Home Stronger Than The Culture Deceiving Your Kids
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    Re-Create Study Guide: Building a Culture in Your Home Stronger Than The Culture Deceiving Your Kids

    By Ron Luce

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    Parents, pastors, youth pastors, and all concerned adults will welcome this 6 week small group Bible study guide. Together with the companion ReCreate Your World DVD, this guide will bring hope into the lives of those who dare to step out of the status quo of quiet Christianity and make a massive difference by dreaming and using their God given creativity to reshape culture. Dare to dream of what could happen when we all choose to recreate!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 27, 2011
    ISBN9781441225429
    Re-Create Study Guide: Building a Culture in Your Home Stronger Than The Culture Deceiving Your Kids

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      I reviewed the study guide, DVD and book. Although the book is great on its own I believe the study guide and DVD enhance the overall experience. The DVD has for each session 4 small videos: an intro, one or two short videos, and the closing statements. I will say that the speaker, Don Luce, is not the most dynamic speaker, in fact I thought he looked a little uncomfortable in front of the camera (However, in his defense I, too, would be uncomfortable in front of a camera opposed to a live audience). However, it is evident in his speaking where his heart is. The other clips are absolutely astounding and will stick in the participants head for a long time afterward.The book is a battle cry for parents to claim the hearts of their children. It has certainly made me more aware of the subtle attacks of the enemy. As a youth worker in our church I found this invaluable. The following quote from the book sums up this book: "..it is imperative that you start actively working with your children at the youngest age to
    • 2/5
      A small group of us discussed this book as part of a Lenten Bible study at my church. As the token liberal in the group, I have to say that I disagree with just about everything Ron Luce writes. Some chapters seemed to be commercials to buy his other study aids or to purchase his church youth programs. The rest were rants about how he's raising his children the best way possible and no one need think about an alternative because they would be WRONG. He did raise some valid points about the effects of media on kids and I am more aware of what my kids watch and view on the internet now, but the rest of it was just annoying. I'd love an afterword written by his own children about their take on their upbringing.

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    Re-Create Study Guide - Ron Luce

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    HOW TO USE THIS STUDY

    This guide gives you information on how to break down the 26 chapters and conclusion of ReCreate to create a dynamic six-week study. Some chapters are shorter and easier to breeze through, while others offer opportunity for deeper reflection. Leaders, you might have your group use the questions in the workbook simply for group discussion or you might encourage members to write in each answer on their own. You decide the key points you want to discuss, pray through and act on each week.

    WEEK 1— Read chapters 1–4 of RECREATE

    Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. End your meeting by doing the Getting Creative section of chapter 1 in the study guide. Discuss, and then commit to your group the one thing you are going to do from the Getting Creative section in chapter 4 of the study guide.

    WEEK 2— Read chapters 5–10 of RECREATE

    Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. Have some (or all) in your group share their testimonies per the God’s Heart for You section in chapter 5 of the study guide. At the end of the meeting, pair up to pray for each other per the God’s Heart for You section in chapter 7 of the study guide.

    WEEK 3— Read chapters 11–15 of RECREATE

    Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. Taking direction from the Getting Creative section in chapter 14 of the study guide, plan a game night with your small group. Don’t forget to include the kids!

    Week 4— Read chapters 16–21 in RECREATE

    Complete the chapters in the study guide. Decide how your group will act on the project given in the Getting Creative section in chapter 17 of the study guide. End with powerful intercession for the youth of your church.

    WEEK 5— Read chapters 22–25 of RECREATE

    Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. Decide how you’re going to act on the challenge in the God’s Heart for You section in chapter 23 to plan a time to fast with your small group, your spouse or your church and have a time of corporate prayer. Also take time to discuss and pray about the Getting Creative section in chapter 24 of the study guide.

    WEEK 6— Read chapter 26 and the conclusion of RECREATE

    Complete chapter 26 of the study guide. Do the conclusion of the study guide, On the Other Side of Your Dream, together. Decide how and when you will do the Getting Creative section of the conclusion as a group.

    WEEK 1

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    GENERATION OUT OF CONTROL

    Have you picked up a newspaper, gone online or flipped on the television today?

    If so, did you skim over the deluge of shocking headlines—pop icons committing suicide or getting committed to rehab; underage actresses arrested for driving under the influence; another student turning a gun on his school or on his unsuspecting town? Did you just skim the headline, or did you dig deeper to find out the story? And did you ever stop to wonder why? What’s causing this kind of chaos, what damage is it doing to your kids—and to an entire generation—and what can be done to stop it?

    As Ron Luce writes in ReCreate, behind so much of this madness is a massive pop-culture machine. This machine devours [celebrities] and then spits them out. Lives are destroyed within the machine, as well as influenced by the product of the machine. Then the machine rinses and repeats, looking for the next product to sell and the next person to buy it.

    And each life consumed adds more fuel to the fire. This machine is hungry, Ron says. It must be fed. It needs more stars to control and exploit . . . They also need fans to sell to. In either case, they do not care about the ultimate effect their machine has on its victims. Who’s next?

    So, who, you might be asking, are the they that comprise this machine? They’re the makers and marketers of the media, entertainment and fashion industries, people caught up in a machine of their own making who, in a bid to make more money, sell products and people to a gullible public—specifically, a young, unguided public that’s entranced by all that Hollywood has to offer.

    But there’s someone else, someone much greater and more sinister than any moviemaker or MTV executive. He’s the machine’s ultimate taskmaster and the brutal slave driver behind pop culture’s most powerful men and women.

    Look up Ephesians 6:12 and 1 Peter 5:8. According to these verses, who’s the mastermind behind the machine?

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    If Satan is the one with the agenda, what should be our first line of defense against ungodly media and culture?

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    Look again at 1 Peter 5:8. What, in your own words, does it mean to be alert to what’s going on in pop culture?

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    The Branding Age: What Are Your Kids Buying (and Buying Into)?

    What are your thoughts when you hear of Viacom boldly proclaiming, We don’t advertise to this generation; we own this generation? Does it stir up a holy anger in you to rescue kids (and perhaps yourself) out of such bondage? Ron points out that the machine thrives by making money off the kids it provides products for—unconcerned about how those products may influence or harm those who it is selling to. Such products could be video games, TV shows, music, movies, magazines, clothing and the icons featured in them.

    What age is considered the branding age?

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    Think of the teens and preteens in your family or life. What are they interested in? Do you notice any particular patterns forming in what products and brands they like or anything they have to have or any celebrity they have to keep up on?

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    Which of the previous are good influences and/or in line with virtuous values? Which influences lend to attitudes and images of impurity, selfishness, disrespect and/or violence?

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    Have you bought anything for your child or allowed him or her to purchase anything lately that might promote ungodly character? If so, pause for a minute to pray about what God would have you do with that thing and how you should speak to your child about it. Record here what you sense God directing you to do:

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    The Bible and the Branding Age

    In Scripture, we read of several men and women whom God branded at a very young age—most likely when they were in their early teens. Before you complete the following questions, read 1 Samuel 16:10-13, Daniel 1 (the whole chapter) and Luke 1:26-38.

    As you read about David, Daniel and Mary—ordinary young people whom God used to bring about His extraordinary plans—what does it make you think about the potential for your teen, or the teens in your church?

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    Why do you think God chose teens as opposed to mature adults in each of these cases? Why might He choose them now?

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    Now take a minute to ponder the flip side. If God has a penchant for using young people to demonstrate His power and to accomplish mighty things, who do you think the devil will attempt to take down and use to bring glory to his name?

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    Mooks and Midriffs: Cultural Images of a Generation Out of Control

    Ron writes, Some parts of this culture machine are staggeringly massive. Take Viacom for example; they own Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., MTV, MTV2, VH1, Comedy Central, BET, Logo (the gay channel), as well as other media outlets. They have what they call a ‘cradle to grave’ strategy. They start when our kids are very young, getting enamored with pop icons as they are baby-sat by Nickelodeon. Soon, they graduate to Nick Jr. and MTV, and their appetite for music and their desire to emulate the clothes, the vogue, and every gesture of the hottest star is kicked into full function mode. They are happy to keep people occupied through every era and epoch of their life, making money as they maneuver them through their entire life cycle.

    Do you have, and does your church also have, a cradle to grave strategy? If so, what is it? If not, jot some ideas on what you think it ought to be.

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    Ron also says, Truly, their industry thrives on the fact that most parents are either irresponsible or completely ignorant as to what the media that is sold to their teens actually contains. Are you aware of what your kids are buying, of what—and who—is being sold to them through the media?

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    It’s easy as adults—especially adults who perhaps grew up in middleclass suburban America—to judge the outward appearance and crass behavior of many teens today. The Church often shuns those who are most in need of being rescued. But as ambassadors of Christ, it’s our responsibility to snatch them out of the jaws of this machine.

    It’s time to dream and to encourage your kids to dream. It’s time to recreate a culture that glorifies God and liberates people. It starts with repentance and prayer, then a commitment to lead by example and disciple and mentor a younger generation, which leads to acting on the dreams God has given you—and encourage your young ones to do the same.

    Getting Creative

    Before moving on, take time on your own or with your spouse or study group to get on your knees before God. Since He is the original Creator of culture, He alone knows how to bring it back to life and

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