The Power Team

We briefly touched on this essay in class but the one thing that we did dicuss was the fact that it is a controversial essay.  With that little piece of information in mind I wanted to make sure that I kept and open mind while I read this.  After I did finish reading the essay I understood how people could feel an issue with the topic but at the same time I didn't have a problem with it.  Basically, the essay was about this power lifting team that goes around to churches, gatherings and schools and put on a show of pure strenght and muscle.  The purpose of this team is not only to break any possible object but also to try and spread the Christian faith.  A lot of their acts represent different obsticles or issues that people face no matter what faith they follow.  For instance, one final act that they do is where they break a set of hand cuffs, this is supposed to represent breaking away fromt the devil and sinning.  In the essay it talked about how this is just considered baiting people to tune and and listen to the Christian faith.  If so, it is working well and I have no issue with it. 

I did not have much of a probleme with this essay.  I felt like if people want to come watch them break things but don't want to listen to them talk about faith then they don't have to come.  It is part of the act, it is a two part act and if people don't like it then they don't have to watch or be a part of it.  One important thing I took from this essay is that this team also talks to schools and teens.  One person actually said in the essay that they stopped a few teen sucides and that all the lifting and working out makes it all worthwhile when that happens.  I think that if these men are getting through to these types of teens then let it continue.  The power team is only trying to do what they believe in and think is right.  It is not right to condem these men because people think their show is just bait.  They are doing a noble cause and I support it.