{"id":33364,"date":"2022-09-10T20:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/kids-play-making-bible-study-fun-for-gamers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:45:59","slug":"kids-play-making-bible-study-fun-for-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/kids-play-making-bible-study-fun-for-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Play: Making Bible Study Fun for Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too many see the Bible as just an ancient text, with no relevance for daily life. Even most Christians aren\u2019t spending time in the Word like they should.<\/p>\n<p>And what of the children? In a recent survey, the American Bible Study found that more than half of Christian adults wish their kids read the Bible more. Some 40-percent of them find it hard to teach children about the Bible these days\u2014and 54-percent would use a tool to help their children understand the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the allegorical videogame <em>The Aetherlight: Chronicles of the Resistance.<\/em> Created by Scarlet City Studios, this interactive experience draws young players into a fantastical world where they learn the Bible in the course of their adventure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have taken the greatest story ever told\u2014the story of the God of the Bible and his relationship with humanity\u2014and built an allegorical world that is truly epic,\u201d says Scarlet City CEO Carl Becker. \u201cOur hope is that this brand-new expression of the biblical narrative will help them to see their own world\u2014and their part in it\u2014through new lenses, with greater hope and a richer sense of meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Aetherlight<\/em> retells the historical events of the Bible in a new narrative context\u2014not unlike C.S. Lewis\u2019 The Chronicles of Narnia or even the many <em>VeggieTales<\/em> retellings of classic Bible adventures. But retelling the Bible as an allegory isn\u2019t a challenge to be taken lightly.<\/p>\n<p>Scarlet City\u2019s Tim Cleary, who wrote the story behind <em>The Aetherlight,<\/em> says it\u2019s a huge task.\u201cNot only do many of us have Bible college and church experience,\u201d says the former youth minister, \u201cbut we also have a Theologian in Residence who is involved in much of our work from planning and pre-production, to writing, to the books we\u2019re working on and our Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/kids-play-making-bible-study-fun-for-gamers\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many see the Bible as just an ancient text, with no relevance for daily life. Even most Christians aren\u2019t spending time in the Word like they should. And what of the children? In a recent survey, the American Bible Study found that more than half of Christian adults wish their kids read the Bible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/kids-play-making-bible-study-fun-for-gamers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kids Play: Making Bible Study Fun for Gamers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}