Paul McDonald and Britt Mooney blast off 500 years into the future with Idiocracy. In this Beavis and Butthead meets Brave New World story, we wrestle with how the past has led us to the current culture. We have a choice to lead, follow, or get out of the way. We all have fruit we want to grow, but need to investigate what we are using to grow the life God has called us to. Fill up on Brawndo and get cozy in your hibernation chamber as we discover God’s truth in this movie.
Questions
- What words would you use to describe the culture we are living in? Globally? Nationally? Locally?
- What’s your family culture? What is your personal culture? What are the priorities? What are the values? What is most important, as evidenced by the actions (generosity, vacations, work, honesty, play)? Where do you spend most of your time?
- What activities make you feel fulfilled? What actions leave you feeling emptied/drained?
- What are you doing now that will have an impact in the future?
- How would describe the men and women you look up to? What are their values and priorities?
- Where are you an observer in life? Where are you a participant?
- What suggestions have you been fed about what success looks like? Marriage? Parenting? Being a man?
- What truth do you believe to be utterly unassailable and unquestionable? Is that healthy? Is that growing fruit or killing it?
- What messages are you being subjugated to? What does the world tell you is bad or evil? Is it?
- What fruit are you trying to grow that is proving unsuccessful? What do you need to release that you think is helping that is actually killing it? What do you need to embrace that might seem undesirable? How are you putting salt in the soil of what you’re trying to grow?
- What is the difference between running from something and running to something? How has this been evident in your life?
- What would it be like to admit you might be wrong? What would it take to release these tightly held beliefs?
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Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster (https://graysonfoster.com/)
Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).
Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock
