Flaming Pages of Playboy...

I co-lead a 7th grade small group with my friend Gavin and we had a breakthrough night last night. One of our guys shared some very real struggles that was going on with his family. What he's going through right now is really hard, and it got our guys attention right away. After he shared, another one of our guys (who's house we were at) basically said "I have a playboy in my room right now." After talking through how he got it and why he had it, I was like dude we should take it out behind your house in the alley and light it on fire. It took just a little bit of convincing and within a few seconds we were out the door with a few lighters, lighter fluid, and a playboy in a trash bag.

The funniest part of the night happened when the Playboy was in flames and the wind kicked up. All of a sudden there was flaming porn blowing through the air and the guys were yelling "grab the porn grab the porn, we don't want our neighbors to see it." It's a pretty funny site watching 7th grade boys chasing after charbroiled pages of playboy in the dark. Oh, and we had a visitor that night. Apparently we had gone late (which we do every week) and our visitor's dad was standing at distance watching the whole thing. After I explained everything to him, he really appreciated what our student decided to do. I later found out that the dad of the visitor took him to get ice cream after our small group and talked about the problems that come from pornography and how it will be a temptation his whole life. Pretty cool night. I love my job!