Church Uses 'Halo 3' to Attract Teens

Anyone read about the 16 year old boy in OHIO raised in church, a preacher's boy who walked into the lvnroom one day and said " I have a surprise for you." Shot his dad in the jaw (he has survived to preach on forgiveness) then shot his mom 4 times ( she died). ALL because they said "NO" to halo which the boy had become addicted to. He planned it all out - was about to put the gun in his dad's hand but his sister and bro-in-law walked in and saw what he had done. Now he is serving 32 years - his dad and his sister can never come visit him, can only call him. MY POINT- video games are not so good and the church has NO PLACE WHATSOEVER using them esp one like this... The boy cited this as arguement against his parents telling him no. I am horror struck to find that he was telling the truth about churches using this video game.

the Catholic church indocrinated me when i was a young boy. i had no choice. my younger brother was the object of one priest/predator desires. thank God he was caught and transferred away. the Church is wealthy. since they now are losing money, they turn to a gimmick like this. if the REAL truth came out about Jesus, the Grail, and other secrets the church hides, it would COLLAPSE. i been indocrinated again, this time by choice. iam a 3 time volunteer, and my God ain't SHORT OF CASH, MISTER...

I beat it on legendary =)

The New York Times article stated that Protestant churches were luring teens to play Halo. Not the Catholic Church. Read the article before you spew your hate!

Churches have to put this on display to get more people to be interested in religion? Pretty pitiful.

this is stupid at they are doing since ul be playign halo and not listineing to wat hte bible says about it and this is disrespecting the religion for wht this country was build on

Rhyno101, your lies are obvious. Shut up and go away.

Michele, relax a church is a church is a church. something for the clueless and scared to believe in.

Mindchamber, ony the clueless speak of things they know nothing about. Christians share the same basic beleifs. Differnt denominations worship diffently. People don't "beleive" in a church. People attend church to praise God, not out of fear but because of thier faith.

I don't know why any true Christian would attend these so called churches that sell lattes in the lobby, make money off of gambling (bingo, raffles, etc...), charge kids hundreds of dollars to go to their camps, and play violent video games or show extremely graphic videos to attract members.

Seems to me there was something in the scriptures about the Savior turning over the tables of the money changers in the temples and/or places of worship. In fact when I talk to people about these features they are usually ashamed and from what I've seen is it has lead to less activity in the church membership.

My advice to churches is to show love like Jesus did to sinners; let your light shine and it will draw them.
Romans 12:2(New King James Version) states:
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

As the man sees history, over the years it has always declined. Second Law of Thermodynamics states that everything is going towards disorder. As we see Halo in churches more and more now we will also see different things coming into play. This is just the beginning. We know devil does not have much time remaining for him so he is more and more mad every day. His goal is to destroy as stated in John chapter 10. Those pastors have been decieved and they need prayers for them so they would turn. Light and Darkness has nothing in common with each other. In Genesis we read that (God) seperated light from darkness and God loved the light. He saw it and said it was good. Devil is here to destroy the fine lines of mans morals that God has set up for man. "Thou Shalt Not Kill" was a commandment to man. If he and everyone were to follow it, i would say it would be closer to utopia. Think of all the wars that have happened and that are happening. What devil has said now is that playing Halo is not bad in church since it is all pixels. You are not ((really)) killing anyone. So where is the love? Jesus did not attract people to Himself by means of violence. The word of God stated that light came into the world. That light is Jesus. That light is true love. Love your enemies the Word of God has taught. They say.. well kill those aliens... They are not human. This will go into you in your heart. Subconsciencly it will affect you and you will never know it. I have been a computer addict for 4 years, a bit more than that. I have seen all these video games. I played them, and you will not be closer with God. God is holy meaning He is seperate. Seperate from Darkness. Seperate from the world. What we see here today folks is the new low of the Church of God that it has fallen to. The lost faith that people left, the lost love that people decided to replace with Halo to attract people. Holy Spirit brings people. The Apostoles did not bring the world into the church. They stayed seperate. Holy Spirit brought people from the world into church. What the church is doing now is going into the world. Day by day we see that. Will no one raise voice and say and see what is going on. How would Jesus look at what the pastors are doing? How once the Christian nation has gone the path towards wickedness. Has now forgotten it's Creator and went by the way it wants to go.

Well if people go to church for these games networking things and they get saved from it, doesn't that make it worth it? 1 less sole into the internal fire. it may not save them directly but it may be a step in the journey