Post from Wednesday

Wednesday’s topic was on relationships. We’ve been reading through a book called ‘The Little Prince’. The main character is looking for something because he is lonely and we really used that to form the evening program and discussion.

The night program was set up like an interview with Oprah. Jackie was Oprah and Bob was her special guest. In an interview style Jackie asked Bob about his testimony and how God repaired his relationship with his wife. Jackie also talked about a man and woman’s role in relationships (men = lead/pursue, women = follow), and she talked about the three-letter word (sex, which is the same in Czech surprisingly). Jackie closed with a story from her past that the students really appreciated and went well with the topic.

Jackie's Oprah Interview

Man and Woman both trying to 'lead' the relationship = chaos

To demonstrate the effect of relationships on us, she put 3 pieces of tape on a victim/student’s arm = scotch tape, electric tape, and duct tape.

-      - Scotch tape = Surface level friendship/school friend

-      - Electric tape = Deep friendship/close friend/best friend

-      - Duct Tape = Romantic relationship with sexual intimacy

When each of those relationships break, its like the tape ripping off, it hurts. The scotch tape hurts a little, the electric tape a little more, and the duct tape a lot. And after she ripped off the duct tape she put it back on, ripped it off, put it back on. Eventually, it wasn’t sticky anymore. Showing that the power of sex to make 2 people all the more intimate stops working, so by the time someone gets married, it doesn’t fulfill its purpose of bringing 2 people together.

All 3 parts of the program worked really well together. And Jimi (the translator) was awesome. He was very enthusiastic and told the story with his actions as well as his words.

Afterwards we split into our groups (the same ones for English class) and asked  questions like ‘What do you think about the roles of men and women in relationships.’ ‘What do you think about the Christian attitude towards sex’.  

We gave them the option of splitting up into a large guy’s group and a large girl’s but for the most part they wanted to stay in the small groups. The discussions went really well.

For my group (Luice), it was the longest discussion we’ve ever had. We are allotted 30 minutes but are able to go to over, my group talked for 1.5 hours.

.... And thats it. Sorry for the awkward ending. 

P.S. Nazdar Ameriko tady jsem. (Hello America here I come!) ß Written by Filip, one of the Czechs in Ruth’s group.