Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey there. You're listening to Rooted at Home with Christian Lloyd, kids pastor at Edmonds First Baptist Church. Diving into real life topics that impact kids, parents and families today and discovering what God's word has to say about them.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: Hey families. My name is Christian Lloyd. I'm the kids pastor at First Baptist Church Edmond. And I just wanted to get together about once a week so we could talk about different things that are affecting families. Whether that be man, we go through a gambit of things, don't we? Whether that be discipline and things that come up during the week, whether that be movies that may be coming out, whether that be an app that we found or that I found that's really cool or that one of y' all found. And we want to talk about it and let other parents know about it. Just things that we can really work together to address and be in the know.
Cause as we know as parents and potentially grandparents and other things, it's really easy to for life to kind of fly by and be quick and be an easy way to get lost in all that craziness, especially with technology and things flying out of so quick and news and other things. And so this is just an opportunity for us to really talk about things that involve kids and families and just really engage on it. And it don't worry, it's not going to be long. I'm going to try my best not to be super long winded. Should be pretty short where you can listen to it really quick. But some other things we'll talk about is just some questions and things that I may have heard during the week, whether that be from parent on a Wednesday night or a Sunday or that be I'm scrolling through social media and I've noticed that this one topic has been really just predominant on social media, things like that. It could also even be some articles and things that I've read throughout the week that I think would be important and really enjoyable for us to do. And then we're also going to be doing a few other things for families that I'm really excited about. One of those we're going to be calling Big Kids and that is just going to be a podcast for myself and other kids pastors to get together. And so I'll invite a kids pastor to join us every week and and we'll be able to just chat and be big kids talking about ministry together, which if you know me, which I know a lot of you do, it will absolutely be just two big kids talking to each other because I am a big Kid as well. For. For today, I just wanted to talk through something that is very prominent that has been throughout my house for, I don't know, at least maybe a month now. And that is a movie called K Pop Demon Hunters. Not sure about you, but I have just been hearing those songs constantly throughout my entire day, throughout the entire house. Just whether they're being sung by my daughter or they're wanting to be played on the loudspeaker or the, you know, the CD player, or they're wanting to be blasted down the road while we're listening to music in the car on the way somewhere. K Pop Demon Hunters has absolutely kind of enamored our household and a lot of our families. In fact, I think almost every week now in the kids ministry on a Wednesday night I'll come up there and we'll have some kids playing Gaga Ball and some kids playing play in different STEM activities and things. And next thing you know, we'll hear golden being sung throughout. And I look over and you know, usually it's my daughter, but it is some other kids as well singing these songs. And so I wanted to talk about it and a few different things. The premise of the movie is about a K pop group, so a singing group that uses their song and their songs to fight demons. And so they have weapons and things and they'll go and fight demons and try to beat them and save all the people. And the other side of it is the demons are trying to use their K pop group, their boy band in order to kind of take the power away from these. The Hunt tricks is their name, the other K pop group. And the whole premise of the movie is just them fighting. And one of the main characters is, um. There's three, first of all, there's three girls in the group and one of the main characters name is Huntrix, or Good Grief is roomy and she is actually part demon. She's half demon, I guess. And so that's a big plot line throughout the movie. But I've heard a lot of parents talking about it and the songs are just ridiculously catchy. But I wanted us to real quick address just some thoughts on the movie and talk about if it's something that we should watch or that we should let our kids watch.
And to give you it in a quick format is yes, I have let my kids watch it. And I think it actually provides a very good opportunity to get. Get the kids talking about Christian things, get them talking about the Lord and get them talking about sin, especially as that seems to Be a very big predominant aspect of the movie.
And so just to touch base a little bit on it, there is a website that I use that I have used for a while now that some of you may know it. If you do, that's great. If not, I encourage you to get on and use one of the next couple websites that I'll talk about to check on movies and see reviews from more of a Christian perspective. And that one of those is called Common Sense Media. Uh, they do reviews not just for books, but they have or movies, but they have books. They have reviews for books, they have reviews for TV shows. They have reviews for all those different things. And they will talk about what age they recommend that someone watch K Pop Demon Hunters and other things. And it breaks it down into what kind of.
Is there violence and scariness level? Is there language? Is there any romance or anything like that? Is there different products and purchases and ads in the movie and things, if there's drinking. And then those are positive stuff, positive messages, positive role models, things like that. They really break it down pretty well.
And then the other one that I use, and this is the one that I like more than Common Sense Media. Common Sense Media is great, but I really think Plugged in is a lot better. So this is pluggedin.com and it's ran by Focus on the Family and they do the same thing, but very much are more. Even more have that Christian element in it that talks about the spirituality of movies and things. And is there.
Should it be recommended? Should it not be? Should a kid even watch it? Should you absolutely stay away from it? And so they talked about that it's kind of a medium content caution. They have things for content. They have a light or they have medium or they have really, really hard to really something that we don't recommend kids watch at all. And so if you go on there though, they have the review.
And I can say the movie itself is pretty entertaining. It's an entertaining movie. There's lots of great comedy moments. There's also some funny just things that just make you laugh and giggle, even as parents.
Then there's also of course, the songs, which is the biggest part of it. And then the songs are really well done. They're very, very, very catchy. And even myself, sometimes I'll find myself singing or singing along to some of those songs or even the. Some remix versions of the songs. But the movie itself is a pretty good, entertaining movie.
There are positive elements that in the movie is that you really do see that Rumi, the main character who is half demon really has to learn to trust others and trust her friends and her family and those that have taken care of her to.
Because she tries to hide the fact that she is half demon in the movie. And so there is some positive, positive elements in that. And if you have these marks, that makes you a demon. And so that means you're bad and you may serve the bad guys and things like that.
And there are some. I mean, you do see demons in the movie. And so the. There's some scary elements of the movie in that way.
I don't think the demons are not portrayed as anything horribly scary. It kind of looks like a mask, almost like they're wearing a. Maybe a.
Just a mask that kind of depicts a demon. So you do see those.
But there's nothing grossly scary, I would say, from that aspect. But as the movie goes on, you'll see this group called the Saja Boys, and they are the antagonists for the movie because they're trying to help raise the demon lord's body, essentially, or bring him back to life. And his name's Guima, and they try to raise him back to life. And so they go in and they try to steal the hunt tricks, the other K pop group, they try to steal their.
Their thunder, if you will, all their fans. So they sing songs and they are enticing and they're entertaining and they're fun. But behind the scenes, what nobody knows is that they're demons or people working for the bad guys. And so there's different opportunities that you see that you see them kind of in one scene. They walk and they're all excited and bright when they're around their fans. But the moment they walk off from their fans, they hunch over and they look tired because they really don't care about them. They're. That's not. They don't care about the fans like Huntricks does.
And so at the end of the movie, though, there is a.
A scene where they do a song. And the song is called your idol. And it's a song all about how the Saja boys and the demon, if you will, and the demons and the demon lord, that they're the ones that can help take away your pain. They're the only ones that will understand you. They're the only ones that knows what you're going through. And it's a example is a perfect scene of. You see these people and they're enamored. They are completely almost like in a trance by this song as they're sucked in. As even one of the lines says that I'm the only one that can see your sins or things like that. It's very, very blatantly, very blatantly, in my opinion, a great reference of what sin is. And so we're going to talk about that. But you see him and they walk towards the fire, and they're walking in the. Just completely mindless almost because they're so enamored by this group.
And it's such a good opportunity because in the movie, it really shows how sin specifically can be really tempting and how sin is something that often looks amazing from the outside.
It's a good opportunity as a parent, to be able to talk about and understand. Like, you know that as believers, we know that Jesus died for our sins, and we see that we're tempted every day. Even as a kid, as Parker is a first grader, my daughter, she is tempted already to lie, to do things that she shouldn't. And this is an opportunity for me to watch this movie and then to talk with her about it and to say, hey, we know that sin looks good, doesn't it? Sometimes you look at sin and you see that it looks so good on the outside, man, it's delicious. It looks great.
It's like a donut. You got a perfect outside, but then maybe on the inside it's just filled with nasty, gross things. And to talk about the fact that these Sasha boys, we see how engaged and how quickly the. These fans become. They want to follow the Saja boys, they want to give their lives over to him because it's so tempting. But it's an opportunity for us to talk about that, to be able to use this movie to say, hey, sin is tempting, isn't it? Sin's very easy to get caught by, but God's word tells us that we should flee from sin. And so at the end of the movie, we see that Rumi comes in and she sings. And part of her thing is that she accepts herself for who she is and she admits that she needed help. And the Huntrix girls, they kind of hug and they're back together and they defeat Guimo and they make the, what they call the Golden Hanmoon, which is the kind of protection over the world that helps keep the demons out. And it's an opportunity for sure, that we can help teach our kids that in the end, sin is tempting and it looks great. But of course, we know that Jesus is the only answer. And so you could go as far as to say even that. You see the honmoon when they finish. And it's all protected over the world to emphasize the fact that Jesus is the one that died for the sins of the whole world. We have a free opportunity for us to come to him and be forgiven of our sins. And if only we would turn from our sin, to turn away from it and to turn to God. And it's an opportunity, I think that is easily able to be used in this movie because it's such a. It's such an easy grab. It's low hanging fruit. You can watch the movie and then see just how easy the temptation is. That was my first thought when we started watching this movie and the Saja boys came out. And by the time we were over with that I could talk to Parker about. Because it's true. Sin is very tempting, isn't it?
Yeah. But that was just kind of one thing I wanted to talk about. So if you're on the fence about watching K Pop Demon Hunters, I'd suggest that you totally could watch it. We watched it and Parker and as well as my 2 year old did. And she didn't think anything was too scary in it either. But they've enjoyed the music and they've enjoyed the songs. But of course I would say if you're gonna watch it, absolutely make sure that you talk about at the end of the movie how it wasn't Broomy. That Rumi may have fixed the problem in the movie, but we can't fix it ourselves. We're sinners. We're the ones that are walking towards our own destruction. But God sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. And you could talk about that and really help make this a movie that is a worldly movie into a very good Christian lesson on sin and the temptation of sin.
And so that's what I wanted to talk with you about today.
Just real quick, just about a movie and things. So if you have anything else that you have seen during the week or that you want to want me to talk about real quick for just a few short minutes and let me know. I do want to end with this small story. I think it's a pretty great story. So here's. Here's this. I just want you to picture this with me. There's a grand underwater gala. Grand Underwater gala. The kind where all the sea creatures, they gather once a year to show off their fanciest scales Their shiniest shells, their smoothest dolphin flips and the clams they're polishing they're so bright and shining the jellyfish are glowing extra bright, and even the sharks are on their absolute best behavior. And everyone's buzzing about who's going to make the biggest entrance. And suddenly, doors to the Coral Ballroom swing open and in swims a fish, wearing, of all things, a perfect little bow tie. The Seaweed Band stops playing, the octopus waiter drops the tray. Even the starfish gasp. Which is impressive considering they don't really have mouths or anything. Finally, someone whispers the question that's on everyone's mind.
What do you even call a fish wearing a bow tie?
Someone leans over and says, so fish decated.
I thought that was pretty good at least. So I want to end with a fun little dad joke, because dad jokes make the world go around. But if you have any questions or anything like that for me or anything you'd like to hear me talk about, feel free to contact me either with text or phone or email or anything like that. And we will hopefully talk about it and continue to grow together and continue to encourage each other as we are all families looking towards raising children in a fallen world.
But thankfully, we don't have to do it alone. We have our church family together and even more important than that, we have the Lord who's guiding us and helping us and keeping us on the narrow path. So until next time. I'll talk to you later.
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