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Essays were written for the Writing Competition portion of the Shout Conference Adacemic Triathlon held during the 7th Annual CFC-Youth for Christ North America Leader's Conference in Dallas, July 27-29, 2001. Photos on this page are unrelated to the essay. |
MORE ESSAYS and PIX: Justin Gimotea
Lloyd Guerra
Shanti Medina
Lauren Mikula
Melanio Puzon III
Mark Villegas
Vince Yu
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| ESSAY PROMPT: Today's youth face an overwhelming challenge of counteracting the negative aspects of the media and entertainment industries. Though society tends to accept these things as typical reflections of 'youth' and 'pop' culture, how can we -- as CFC-Youth for Christ -- resolve society's acceptance of the current
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get a new wagon
rolling
life in today's world is so bombarded with media that sometimes it becomes difficult to
tell right from wrong. as cfc-youth for christ members, God chose us to be delegates of
His Word. i believe this means to not only separate ourselves from the negative values
magnified in media, but to stand up and try to save His people from those same values.
youth for Christ can directly affect these industries by boycotting their negative
aspects. for example, mtv is one of the leading entertainment industries that caters to
the youth. it promotes the values that the Lord wants to redeem us from. we can take a
stand and tell mtv that we don't support what they consider is good entertainment by
simply not watching. they will sooner or later realize that the negative aspects of the
media are not what we want when their ratings plummet.
further, i think that if we show them what we consider righteous and wholesome, they will
automatically cater to us, because they thrive mainly on what we like. they rely on the
trends that we like, and if we don't like their trends, then we won't buy.
i think what it really means is sacrificing being "hip and trendy." we as yfc
know what God considers "hip and trendy." we need to break ourselves off from
the corrupt bandwagon to get a new bandwagon rolling that carries the value that our God
approves of.
not joining the bandwagon that supports the current trends is a challenging task, but the
bandwagon that loads up on God's Word will lead to a road of eternal life. i'd rather ride
that wagon rather than one that leads to death after only a short time of being trendy on
earth. justin gimotea, 14
houston
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