Save the Princess: Your Princess

Post Introduction- Our goal for this series is to equate one of our students' favorite video games to real life experiences.  Titled "Save the Princess" this series is referring to our group's favorite Italian plumber and his pink-clad princess.  Our students should learn about the importance of saving the “princess” and the right way to do so.

The Lesson

(10-15 mins depending on conversation)

Over the next few weeks we will be working on a series that we will call saving the princess. In case you can’t figure it out, we’re talking about *Video Game*. Today we will be talking about the main goal of the game which is saving the princess from Bowser. Over the next few weeks we will discuss our obstacles and enemies as well as our helpers and tools. Who can tell me what the main goal of Super Mario is? 

I know, you have to save the princess from Bowser/King Koopa all while fighting bad guys and crossing rough terrain. Sometimes you have helpers but sometimes you have to do it on your own. But, why is saving the princess from Bowser so important? In this game, we can assume that a princess would be important to everyone in the kingdom. For us, in our personal journeys the princess would be everyone around us who isn’t saved or is under the devil’s influence. We should all care about the eternal safety of each person that we come into contact with as much as Mario cares about saving the Princess.

Psalm 82:4 "rescue the weak and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked" 

Proverbs 24:11 "deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, hold them back"

God has called each and everyone of us to go out and "save the princess". We can't just assume that the world will save itself and continue with life as if everything is fine.  If Mario just sat at the start of the game and never saved the princess it wouldn’t be very fun and the princess would never be saved.

Matthew 28:19-20 "therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

We are called to go out into the world and look for lost princesses that we may not even know exist! Just like Mario, our journey may not always be easy. We may fail and have to start over, but in the end we have to do our best to save the Princess!