Events
Program
0830: Arrival and arranging the room to have the tables for the parents and children who need a surface for their activities.
0900-0940: Hollywood Has a Religion?
0940-0950: Song service
0950-1000: Children’s summary 1 (distribute activity 1)
1000- 1050: The Truth About Internet And Gaming Addictions
10:50-1110: 1st Q&A
1110-1120: Break (encourage people to get up, move around, walk etc)
1120-1150: Children’s song service and Children Summary 2 (10 minutes singing, 15 minutes summary, 5 minutes singing) – distribute activity 2
1140-1150: November Workshop Update
11:50-1200: December Camp Meeting Update
1200-1215: Song service
1215-1315: The heart of Man
1300-1430: Lunch
1430-1440: Song service
1440-1450: Testimony (gaming addiction)
1450-1540: Overcoming Media Addictions
1540-1600: 2nd Q&A
1600-1615: Final exhortation
1615: End of day
Day Facilitators:
- MC for the day: Ted Kenya
- Main Sessions: Onesmus Mboya
- Children Sessions: Priscilla Mosigisi
- Afternoon Testimony on gaming addictions: Moses Nguma
- Workshops Update: Maseline Kamasara
- Camp Meeting update: Magoma Kwasa
- Coordinating offering and generally being on top of everything, including registration. In summary the ushers for the day: Arnold & Maseline Kamasara
- Talking about why the offering that we plan to collect: Maseline Kamasara
- Vote of thanks and final remarks (and info on the website if any): Ernest Moturi
- Chorister: Ted Kenya to select randomly from congregation as he sees fit
- Video, recording and other such: Ted Okoth
SESSION 1: DOES HOLLYWOOD HAVE A RELIGION
- Your visual system cannot differentiate between TV and reality
- Symbols rule the world
- The Oscar award is modelled exactly as Egyptian Ptah god
- The Ptah god has a son called Osiris
- In the olden days, there were parties organised which ran for days. There were sensual and gruesome.
- There is an outright use of of Satanic signs in movies and songs.
- Evils has been made to look good.
- In the movie Descendants, evil is made to look good.
- In the last two decades, there have been
- 500 movies on super heroes
- 500 dragon movies released
- 1000 spiritual movies
- 500 witchcraft movies
- 600 religious movies
- There’re no single Bible movies released by Hollywood that are biblically sound
- Out of the top 100 movies, 70 of them are religious, connecting us to extra-terrestrial world. None of them are Islamic.
- The theme is that we are being introduced to a world without God, or to an alternative god
- At the Met Gala Awards this year, the Vatican made a religious function that had celebrities gather together. The Met Gala was heavy with symbolic
Hollywood’s agenda
01 A world without God
02 A world with alternative gods
03 A world without God’s Law
The Bible warns us about witchcraft
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. – Deuteronomy 18:10-1210
Mushu the dragon
Mushu is worshipped as a dragon god. In Revelation 12:9, Satan is the great dragon that was cast down from heaven. Satan wants to be worshipped.
Hollywood tells us to follow our hearts. God would have us depend on Him instead of following our hearts. The Jeremiah 17:9
A child watching a cartoon affects the brain. It caused high beta waved which were like the brain wave of an epileptic person. This was an EEG scan. The movie was causing a short supply of oxygen in the brain.
When the child was exposed to a hymn, the frequency was normal.
Conclusion
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 These 5:21,22
SESSION 2: THE TRUTH ABOUT INTERNET AND GAMING ADDICTIONS
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A famine is comingBehold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: – Amos 8:11Gaming has evolved
- Games have evolved from simple games like Snake, Solitaire to more complicated. The games have now evolved to virtual reality.
- Gaming gives 5 times more revenue than TV adverts
- Gaming gives dopaminergic brain pleasure like sex
- Excessive screen pleasure is damaging brain.
- University of Washington is now using virtual reality to treat patients without any pain killers. Gaming can numb your sensibilities
Self-diagnosisAnswer the following questions to know your addiction level.- Do you panic when you have allow battery
- Sleep next to your phone
- Scroll your phone in church
- Check for likes and comments
- Have your phone at dinner?
- Scroll your phone when having visitors
- Always ask for Wi-fi?
- Post-reveal photos weekly?
Design trapArtificial intelligence (AI) has been used to customise your browsing experience. It helps to analyse user behaviour and programme you.Revenue and vitality depend on and engagement and retention.
Habits are programmable
“Digital Behavioural Design” Book
- Brain nudging mechanisms are used to program people.
- The average person checks their phones 150 times a day
- Dopamine is released as a reward. Social media has rewards which makes it very addictive.
- The media connections will never satisfy
Satisfaction
- Sex: 100%
- Sugary food: 90%
- Healthy vegetarian food: 50%
- Instagram, followed by Facebook, are the worst forms of social media.
- In addition, there is perverseness and idolatry
16 people die from social media induced suicide everyday.
Social media encourages hasty superficial reading
Hasty, Superficial Reading Weakens Power of Concentration—With the immense tide of printed matter constantly pouring from the press, old and young form the habit of reading hastily and superficially, and the mind loses its power of connected and vigorous thought. Furthermore, a large share of the periodicals and books that, like the frogs of Egypt, are overspreading the land are not merely commonplace, idle, and enervating, but unclean and degrading. Their effect is not merely to intoxicate and ruin the mind, but to corrupt and destroy the soul. – Adventist Home, 415.1
SESSION 3: THE HEART OF MAN
A numeral pathway
- The human brain has 100 billion neurones
- Every action or experience in recorded in the of a physical neuroscience pathway in your brain
- Neural pathways are strengthened into habits
- Every time you repeat a behaviour or watch it, it adds the connection and the neural strands become stronger and stronger.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. – Romans 10:10
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. – Romans 5:5
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Matthew 15:19
Putting idols before your face
6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself: – Ezekiel 14:6,7
Glorify God
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1 Corinthians 6:20
Keep thy heart with all diligence
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. – Proverbs 4:23
Nudging
- Satan is always nudging us to commit evil. One of the most popular ways of nudging is through notifications on social media. The book “Nueromarketing” explains the art of nudging.
- Advertisers and social media companies have done extensive research to make us addictive to these platforms.
- A tired brain will respond to notifications as they are put in an eye-catchy colour like red.
- The nudges push your pleasure buttons, they realise oxytocin to make you defenceless it’s a moment of intense trust. An automatic conditioned response is the result.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. – Pslam 51:6
Use Scripture typer to memorise scripture
SESSION 4: OVERCOMING MEDIA ADDICTION
The human mind cannot differentiate between reality and TV
After every pleasurable experience that causes a release of dopamine, the brain demands more
O1 Set a goal
The goal is a growing relationship with Jesus, not legalistic rules
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Hebrews 12:1-2
02 Bring into captivity every thought
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; – 2 Corinthians 10:4,5
03 We need to presensitise our moral conscience
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Familiarity with sin makes it to appear less evil
04 God wants a renewed mind
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. – Romans 12:2
05 The world is a battlefield and not a playground
Social media makes the world look like a playground
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. – Romans 12:2
06 Be aware of a counterfeit life
- Over 100 million fake accounts
- No real friends
- Success stories
- No real empathy
- Likes instead of selfless love
- Shares instead of Christian character’Comments instead of fellowship
07 GIGO Garbage in= Garbage out
We are what we feed our minds.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Galatians 6:8
08 The power is in unplugging
Come out and be ye separate
How to unplug
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
- Matthew 16:25
a. Close your social media account
b. Choose social media hours, less than 3 hours per week
c. Change to a non-smart phone
d. Try the practice of no phone at dinner or when with family and friends
e. Charge your phone in a different room
f. Change your wifi password
g. Delete, block and leave
h. Remove social media app
i. Be accountable to a good friend
k. Use your hands at home
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark
Apps to help
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FAQs
Betting
It is designed to be addictive. There is lack of temperance and a desire to
Social media for business
Get apps to help you schedule posts instead of checking every now and then.
How do we start enjoying good content
Boredom is healthy
Boring is healthy. You need boredom to rejuvenate. During boredom, your brain comes up with creativity neurones
Good content
- Watching sermons
- Listening to hymns
- Watch do-it-your-self videos
- Watch nature videos, but not NatGeo as they produce their videos like Hollywood
- Listen to classical music
Conclusion
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 These 5:21,22