Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Value Pledges

I have this new idea. I received it while walking on the beach this morning. I think it could connect, help push this abstinence message and really help this world.
So you aim at youth, primarily high schools and colleges and you speak about this abstinence campaign. Perhaps there could be a whole ciriculum/speaker about value oneself and why. Why abstain? What's going on in this world? Have this in America, Canada, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa, of course everywhere we can, but especially those countries where the exposure can help this grow.
Anyways, you then have these pledge sheets, that only say,
"I value others because I value myself"
That's it! No long lengthy 'I will not have sex' or promise rings because this goes beyond all that. It's loving who you are and loving others. However, it's saying it in a non-religious point, and it's not too fluffy with the word love, it's truth in that it's finding and claiming value. Why would you want to have value in yourself? That's hopefully what's going to be pushed in this new movement and campaign for the world to pick up on.
Once these youth sign, they can then purchase a bracelet or band, perhaps it's a beaded ring, something of substance to keep, to express, maybe it's even boxers with the words I chose, or I'm of value, and then with this purchase...of course in rich countries like America, they pay $5 or $10, and this purchase is for this item, and this declaration, that will/can also then pay for another youth, in countries and places where they can't pay for the declaration and item to have the funding to do so.
SOOOO, we have this link around the world of saying I value you, I value myself. I want to share in this endevor to make change. To say that I care. TO say that I care about you. To say that I care about you whom I don't even personally know, but I will still reach out to you. We've connected the youth of this world in planting a seed of hope, value, and in the end, it's God's desired love.
Now whether people know it or not, they've just done something so Biblical in a world today that says we can't live like people back then did. It's claimed that no not in a world today, it's too different. We as God's followers know this isn't true. The Word is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
What do you think?

I thought about this off the concept I read about in Benjamin Skinner's book I'm reading when this guy, I think Eibner tried to expose slavery in Sudan by having this fundraiser/campaign in American schools, elementary schools, where children could help free a slave. In this redemption process, of children being exposed, exposed HUGELY in the media, that there was even an issue and problem in redemption of these slaves in Sudan. It worked...at least for awhile.
This message can get loud in ways like that, for so many other great causes linked around it in promoting, gaining belief and truth.

James 5 :19
Bring Back the Erring One
"Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins."

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