This fall The Walking Dead premiered its fifth and final season. The show has had an incredible following and the season premiere episode actually had more viewers than the previous years Super Bowl Sunday game!!! I know it was hard for me to believe but it is obvious that the zombie “fever” is a culture phenomenon. Plenty of our teens are obsessed with the show and despite the content ratings so many of them have seen every single zombie movie and show that has come out. I am a strong believer that Jesus doesn’t not share the stage with what is culture says is cool but I do believe that Jesus is apart of redeeming culture. Looking into the theme of zombie I found the fad could easily open up a “non corny” conversation about the redemptive world of God. So ZOMBIE NIGHT happened at Anchor this October the Sunday night before Halloween. I outline below some of the wacky ideas I had include an interactive live action apocalypse game, jello brain eating competition, and zombie makeup. 1. Zombie Apocalypse Game OUTLINE OF GAME Certain number of students are makeup as Zombies Certain number of students a geared up as Survivors The boundaries of the games are explained to students. Zombie base is explained to students. Human base is explained to students. Survivors must find the cure for the disease. If they find the cure and take it to the zombie base then they win. At the beginning of the game all of the Survivors gather at their base. Survivors have flag football flags wrapped around their waste. Each Survivor has three flags which equal three lives. Once the a survivor has of his/her flag removed they die and become a zombie. Survivors are given a limited amount of nerf guns and limited amount of ammo. They are free to run and shoot zombies. They are not allowed to push or knock over zombies. If a zombie is hit with a nerf bullet then they are dead and return to Zombie base. They will be reentered into the game when the leader yells “Zombie’s Come Back To Life” Zombies spread out in groups or individually around the boundaries. Zombies are not allowed to run but can only “zombie run.” If a Survivor has their flag removed they lose a life. If all three of their lives are taken then they a go to the zombie base and then emerge a zombie. Survivors need to find the cure before the time limit. Zombies need to get the survivors before the time limit. TIPS THE CURE- The cure needs to be something that is obvious and labeled. We chose a cross (I know its a little corny but it works with the sermon later). The team has to work together to carry it to the zombie base. ZOMBIE SPREAD OUT- Make sure that zombies are not all just hanging out by the base. Force them to move about. I made a rule that only a certain amount of zombies could be in the zone around the base at a time. ONLY A COUPLE OF SURVIVORS- We had about 45 students at our zombie night so we only have 4-5 survivors and played about 3 rounds. PICK THE RIGHT STUDENTS- Picking the right students to be the survivors is key. You need to be selective because some of them will not be as into the idea of survivor. Like there was a girl who simply wanted a nerf gun to shoot a boy she liked and no one else. She was obviously the first one to go from the team. OPTIONAL GIFT BOXES- I had a bunch of storage containers that I flipped upside down labeled with a survivor logo. In some of the containers I had more ammo, guns, and extra lives. But in some I put signs that said “You Got Bit!!” which made whoever flipped over the box surrender all their lives and instantly become one of the undead. You can be creative with what you think will work. 2. Brain Jello Mold Competition- I found at Party City some jello molds that look like brains. Found a recipe online for brain jello molds that just uses food coloring and strawberry flavored jello. While the jello molds thickening in my fridge I kept adding M&M’s to it to fill it with little color specks. The game was a one on one between two “zombies” as they attempted to get the most M&M’s out of the brain mold in 1 minute. 3. Zombie Sermon- Don’t Be The Walking Dead 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:20-23 My point of doing a Zombie night is to be redemptive about what is cultural. Zombies are already something that teens know about and joke about all the time. So I thought I would go into the bible and talking about "spiritual deadness." My talk was centered around how sin is an "infection" that leaves us (apart from Christ) spiritual dead like the "walking dead" or "zombies." Therefore we are called to PUT TO DEATH our sinful nature and come into a NEW LIFE with Christ. We need the CURE for our infection of Sin which is Jesus and need to not walk in our former ways of sin no longer. My point will be to not be a Zombie but to truly be a Survivor. Then I gave advice to Survivors on how to keep their faith alive in hard times.
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