Monday, June 20, 2005

Holy grand ideas Batman!

Superheroes. That's what the creative genius of Ben and Matt have come up with for a hall theme for next year. Matt and I will probably try to pull off being Batman and Robin. As I'm the tall one and Matt is a little shorter, we thought he should be Batman and I should be Robin, Boy Wonder. I get to dress up in his red shirt thing and green tight. Wowee. I will certainly be a dashing RA. We have thought about naming the rooms of the hall after superheroes, like the Spiderman Room or the Captain America Room. And then we will decorate the hall accordingly with comic books and super hero stuff.

Since we really want to have our main focus be to encourage the spiritual growth of our guys and to spur them on to love and good deeds, we are trying to find a Bible passage that we can tie into the theme. Probably we should have done it the other way around: found a Bible verse that inspires and then built a theme around that. But we really like this theme, and there is so much that we can tie it into.

Some thoughts so far have been: "Be more than conquerors" or "Through Christ, all things are possible", or "Fight the good fight". Nothing has been written in stone yet, so we are still open to suggestions.

Even though we are far from perfect, prayer is such a powerful thing, we believe that God can use even us to lead these young men coming into college. We both pray daily that God will work through us and in spite of us to reach these guys. We are, however, confident that he will be faithful. Matt and I are both stoked about doing the RA thing though.

Robin: "Holy tartars!"
Batman: "Unholy tartars, Robin. Stealing scimitars and golden eggs from a museum is one thing. But when the average citizen on the street is in peril, something must be done, and quickly."
Robin: "I bet even Shakespeare didn't have words for such villainy!"

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