We’ve all talked about wanting to grow closer to Christ but sometimes it’s hard to do. This is a familiar topic that youth bring up especially after an exciting youth rally or worship event when the youth are pumped in their faith. They want to stay motivated and strong. An important ingredient to achieve this is by reading scripture.
Many people are visually oriented. So I wanted to find a way to help teens learn scripture that goes beyond reading words on a page but explores a visual representation of the meaning in the verse. So each week I take a cool, edgy graphic and add scripture verses over it. I then email this image to a group of youth. A week later we get together and talk about the verse and how it interacted with our lives. During the week, they talk about the verse with their friends, pray about the verse and memorize it. Additionally, they also add this graphic to their Facebook, Myspace, cellphone and computer desktop background. Being in a graphic form allows the verse to travel with them through their various cyberspace and digital homes.
One verse can be very interesting. One verse can make a lot of improvement in our lives. Making scripture communicate visually and across many different platforms makes it even more powerful.
By Calvin Williams